Quotes with suspicion

  • 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 international boundaries.
  • While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
  • There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

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  • Hosea Ballou 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.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Joseph Addison Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Samuel Butler A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Barbra Streisand 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 who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Aeschines Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
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  • Lord George Byron But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Gordon B. Hinckley Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    American religious leader and author (1910 - 2008)
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  • E. B. White Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Kin Hubbard Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Jane Porter I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellowcreature.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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  • John Updike It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Barbara von Krüdener It is not virtuous women who are so ready to report suspicion of their sisters.
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  • Barack Obama 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 behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • John B. S. Haldane My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • William Shakespeare See what a ready tongue suspicion hath.
    Henry IV (1597)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Guy Davenport Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
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  • William Shakespeare Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
    Henry IV (1597)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Francis Bacon Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Robert Burns Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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