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Quotes About Suspicion

For me, the terror of the zombie is that at any moment, your friend, your family, you neighbor, your teacher, the guy at the bodega down the street, can be revealed as the monster they've always been.
~ Colson Whitehead
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
~ E. B. White
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
~ Wilson Mizner
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
~ Virgil
If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
~ Thomas Fuller
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
~ Max Beerbohm
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
~ Latin proverb
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
~ William Shakespeare
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
~ James Thurber
In the mind, we doubt and suspect, and we get a kind of pleasure, a kind of joy from that. But in the heart, we try to encompass the full world, and by loving the world, we get joy.
~ Sri Chinmoy
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
~ William Blake
We don't really know who killed Martin Luther King. We don't really know who killed Bobby Kennedy. We don't really know who killed John Kennedy. We don't really know who killed Tupac Shakur.
~ Cynthia McKinney
Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.
~ John McAfee
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.
~ Jessica Cutler
You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. " Chantal
~ Paulo Coelho
I am suspicious of what people might want from me. Do they like me, or my money?
~ Petra Stunt
While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205.
~ Joseph McCarthy
Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.
~ Harry S. Truman
The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance.
~ Rodrigue Tremblay
This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.
~ Ishmael Beah
Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
~ William Shakespeare
You're the one who's not supposed to be here." She hoped he didn't hear the squeak in her normally reliable voice. "How am I supposed to snoop if you don't leave when you say you're going to?
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips