Quotes About Suspicion

It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

I have long entertained a suspicion, with regard to the decisions of philosophers upon all subjects, and found in myself a greater inclination to dispute, than assent to their conclusions.

and live images were of a short, hawk-faced, and slender man, beardless, with a beak nose and distrustful eyes. This

Those who spy on the people end up themselves being spied on by the people.

believe you have struck upon the problems of conspiracies. There are men who wish to keep you from uncovering the truth about this particular matter, but there are others who are only privately villainous and have their own little truths to hide. When you confront a conspiracy it becomes monstrous hard to distinguish between wretched villainy and ordinary, common lies.

Humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid.

I should have roared you down when first you told me your suspicion. But I wilted, and like a Christian, I confessed. Confessed! Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day.

The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.

We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations.

I wonder why no one called the police about the rocket launcher? God knows my neighbors usually report it if I so much as fart in my backyard. (Bubba)

God, I am freaking out. Maybe he doesn't know. Maybe I just look guilty of something and he's picking up on that.

When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.

If it is too good to be true....it is probably a fraud.

They say if it's too good to be true, it usually is..... Unless it's me.

I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

I never trusted good-looking boys.

The villain may be good looking, but his smile is never quite right.

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.

Beau, will you please watch the entrance for us?" "What should I do if I see anyone suspicious?" "Kick a car," Iain said. "Kick a car?" "To set off the alarm." "Gotcha," Beau said. "Good thinking.

People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.