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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Author:
E. White
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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.
Author:
Harry Truman
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.
Author:
John Templeton
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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.
Author:
Barbra Streisand
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
Author:
Ralph Steadman
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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 money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
Author:
Oswald Spengler
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Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.
Author:
Goldwin Smith
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So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.
Author:
Clare Short
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
Author:
Rod Serling
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As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.
Author:
Jay Sekulow
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Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
Author:
Nathalie Sarraute
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There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.
Author:
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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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.
Author:
Elihu Root
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That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone "mainstream."
Author:
Cesar Romero
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Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.
Author:
John Robinson
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I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.
Author:
Jane Porter
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
Author:
Petrarch
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Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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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.
Author:
Barack Obama
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Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
Author:
James Monroe
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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.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
Author:
John Langhorne
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I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.
Author:
Jewel Kilcher
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If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.
Author:
Hamad Khalifa
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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.
Author:
John Kellogg
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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 the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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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.
Author:
Lyndon Johnson
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Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.
Author:
Kin Hubbard
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The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.
Author:
Friedrich Hayek
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I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.
Author:
Mark Hamill
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My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
Author:
John Haldane
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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.
Author:
John Haldane
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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
Author:
Katharine Gerould
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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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.
Author:
J. Fulbright
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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.
Author:
John Foxe
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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
Author:
C. Forester
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From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.
Author:
Lion Feuchtwanger
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Author:
Alexandre Dumas
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Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.
Author:
Richard Dooling
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
Author:
Edsger Dijkstra
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Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.
Author:
Dietrich Dieskau
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I am looked upon with suspicion. I am on the "other side."
Author:
Harry Dickson
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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.
Author:
Demosthenes
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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.
Author:
Jessica Cutler
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My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
Author:
Noel Coward
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I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
Author:
Pierre Corneille
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After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.
Author:
Ron Chernow
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Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime.
Author:
John Carter
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Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
Author:
Julius Caesar
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
Author:
Robert Burns
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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.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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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.
Author:
Johannes Brahms
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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
Author:
Russell Baker
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
Author:
Jane Austen
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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.
Author:
Aeschines
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Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.
Author:
Alvin Adams