Suspicion Quotes

411 Suspicion quotes by 340 unique authors

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in… — Franz Kafka
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. — Elia Kazan
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. — Christopher Lasch
There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think… — Herman Melville
In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms,… — Christopher Nolan
It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down… — Barack Obama
Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors. — Patton Oswalt
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. — Thomas Paine
The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our… — Marcel Proust
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. — Nathalie Sarraute
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. — William Shakespeare
Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far… — Will Self
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. — Rod Serling
I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point… — Peter Singer
There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by… — Oswald Spengler
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man… — Barbra Streisand
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. — Henry David Thoreau
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. — Henry David Thoreau
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across… — Harry S. Truman
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions. — Gore Vidal
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. — Elwyn Brooks White
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. — Oscar Wilde
Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work.… — Helen Fisher
Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and… — John B. S. Haldane
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them. — Franklin P. Adams

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