It may be that in extreme cases there are people, or social systems, who earn trust simply by remaining fixedly and immovably what they are. Such an ontification of the substance of trust, together with an appropriate theoretical representation by means of the idea of trustworthy qualities or virtues, presupposes an environment which is immoveable and neither dangerous nor very complex (or else a compensating 'hereafter' which heals hurts and explains the inexplicable).

Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, loc. 238