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Quotes About Suspicion

Nothing is more suspicious than an unfeeling woman.
~ Unknown
Eve was framed.
~ Unknown
There's always something fishy about the French.
~ Noel Coward
Esta Pérsia parecia tentar fazer de cada homem um cornudo, à vez
~ Noah Gordon
What's a handshake after all, except a socially acceptable way to make sure the other guy doesn't have a knife behind his back
~ Noah Hawley
Three hours later, she was sitting across from the local sheriff, Jim Peabody, whose face looked like the last piece of jerky in the jar.
~ Noah Hawley
She learned quickly that it was not good to be too different. Great differences caused envy, suspicion, fear, charges of witchcraft.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Such leaders knew that they could depend on fear, suspicion, hatred, need, and greed to arouse patriotic support for war.
~ Octavia E. Butler
When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust." She
~ Octavia E. Butler
Why do you always expect the worst of everyone?' When it comes to strangers with guns,' I told her, 'I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I didn't like them when I heard them. I liked them even less when I met them. They look at us as though we smell and they don't. Of course, it doesn't matter whether I like them or not. There are other people in the neighborhood whom I don't like. But I don't trust the Payne-Parrishes. The kids seem all right, but the adults. … I wouldn't want to have to depend on them. Not even for little things.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Quando si tratta di estranei armati, penso che il sospetto ti aiuti a restare vivo più della fiducia.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Most people had suspected it had begun in Los Angeles where, according to them, most stupid or wicked things began. Local prejudice. I didn't tell any of them I was from the L.A. area.
~ Octavia E. Butler
When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.
~ Octavia E. Butler
they knew the cops liked to solve cases by "discovering" evidence against whomever they decided must be guilty. Best to give them nothing. They never helped when people called for help.
~ Octavia E. Butler
After all, they knew Dad didn't kill Keith. And they knew the cops liked to solve cases by "discovering" evidence against whomever they decided must be guilty. Best to give them nothing. They never helped when people called for help. They came later, and more often than not, made a bad situation worse.
~ Octavia E. Butler
When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.
~ Octavia E. Butler
The cops liked to solve cases by "discovering" evidence against whomever they decided must be guilty.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Americans can't stand any stranger looking them in the face. They take it as an insult. It's something they don't forgive. And every American carries a gun. If they catch you, a stranger, looking them in the face, they will shoot.
~ Unknown
Morning, noon and night, every civilized people was assured that enemies, whose flavor was of course subhuman and foul, were plotting its destruction. Armament scares, spy stories, accounts of the barbarous and sadistic behavior of neighboring peoples, created in every country such uncritical suspicion and hate that war became inevitable.
~ Olaf Stapledon
What they got, really, was a cross-section of American paranoia, of hidden prejudices rising to the surface. Whatever diverged from the mainstream was suspect.
~ Unknown
The Nordic Supermen knew how to profit from everything. Immense casks were used to gather the human grease which had melted down at high temperatures. It was not surprising that the camp soap had such a peculiar odor. Nor was it astonishing that the internees became suspicious at the sight of certain pieces of fat sausage!
~ Unknown