"This is a wild generalisation, but traditionally, people in the US are brought up in kindergarten to learn to distrust the government.
He writes that in Independence, Truman learned to distrust outsiders, adopted a rigidly black and white view of the world, and absorbed the fundamentalist belief that punishment must invariably follow transgression.
During my time in Nauru I learned to distrust the government's philosophy that the greater good overrides the individual.
In the 1960s, then, we learned to distrust this entity known as "the establishment", and partly as a result, it opened up, becoming more porous, diverse and less arrogant.
In the way it affected the audience, "Cathleen ni Houlihan" made clear how powerful words, poetry, and pure and risky theatrical images could be in a place where people had learned to distrust political speeches and the language of the official world, a place in which there was a hunger for something in the public realm that was new and could be trusted and almost believed.
From Eliot, who had written that "the progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality," he learned to distrust the hierarchical in every aspect of life, beginning with his own being.
It's an idyllic father-daughter picture, this moment taken from before Beatrice learns to distrust her parents, and it stands in contrast to the family history she discovers when she's older.
In his boyhood he had played with Greeks, but he had soon learned to distrust them, as they did him.
In many of the 7,500 madrassas in Pakistan, which have a student body of 750,000 to 1 million, students learn to distrust and even hate the United States.
"Seesaws are quite important, because they teach you to distrust people," he said, and added, "I learned to distrust my brothers at a very early age".
