Quotes About Suspicion

In the mainstream, I'm suspect because I'm black. I have dreadlocks, I have a goatee. I mean, I'm just suspect. In my classroom and at Columbia, I'm not as suspect because it's clear I know what I'm doing, but I am still suspect.

When I looked into the eyes of the people who knew Laci best, I saw something I didn't want to see: a group of people who desperately loved Laci, and who were beginning to suspect she wasn't coming home.

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

Like with all the Arabs, they use the 'suspect procedure' on me. I arrive four hours before the flight. They do a body search in a back room behind the curtain and then escort me onto the plane because they're afraid that on the way I might pick up a bomb from someone.

It's beginning to sound like the American people are the suspects of the federal government. We are not simply subjects. We are now suspects.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

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.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he.

So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that's suspicion, it's lower than probable cause. And then we have a right to call immigration and check you out.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.

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.