Suspicion Quotes

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

I am looked upon with suspicion. I am on the "other side."

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.

Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.