Quotes About Suspicion

My access point to the '70s is films from that time, and they all have that paranoiac quality.

When you have over 500 million dollars in questionable contributions, shouldn't that start to alert people?

What I had later learned was that the FBI knew I was going to New York a couple days after the raid.

Conscience is, to the individual soul, and to society, what the law of gravitation is to the universe. It holds society together; it is the basis of all trust and confidence; it is the pillar of all moral rectitude. Without it, suspicion would take the place of trust; vice would be more than a match for virtue; men would prey upon each other, like the wild beasts of the desert; and earth would become a hell.

The feelings of devotion, self-sacrifice for one's neighbor, the whole morality of self-denial must be questioned mercilessly and taken to court.... There is too much charm and sugar in these feelings of 'for others,' 'not for myself,' for us not to need to become doubly suspicious at this point and to ask: 'are these not perhaps-seductions?

When our head feels too weak to answer the objections of our opponent our heart answers by casting suspicion on the motives behind his objections.

88 One begins to distrust very clever persons when they become embarrassed.

thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! [...] out of their countenances peer the hangman and the sleuth-hound. Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

To invent fables about a world other than this one has no meaning at all, unless an instinct of slander, detraction, and suspicion against life has gained the upper hand in us: in that case, we avenge ourselves against life with a phantasmagoria of another, a better life.

My Mrs. Willis thinks the skyscrapers are out to get her. At night they make themselves still skinnier, she says, and come sneaking down the streets after her.

The latter stage is apt to end in cynicism as we wonder what the one who praises really wants.

It's a far cry from that, I just meant that in general people say all sorts of nonsense about me, but it's mostly out of jealousy. Don't you go believing anything of the stort. They're denouncing me me in order to deflect suspicion from themselves, but I myself can denounce them.

It's a far cry from that, I just meant that in general people say all sorts of nonsense about me, but it's mostly out of jealousy. Don't you go believing anything of the sort. They're denouncing me me in order to deflect suspicion from themselves, but I myself can denounce them.

It's a far cry from that, I just meant that in general people say all sorts of nonsense about me, but it's mostly out of jealousy. Don't you go believing anything of the sort. They're denouncing me in order to deflect suspicion from themselves, but I myself can denounce them.

If I was married to a guy like that, chances are good he'd wind up being a suspicious smell in the attic

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum.

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for.

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

An alienated population seldom provides the tip-offs the police need to catch criminals, or the evidence in court needed to convict. This has been a problem at times within some minority communities who regard the police as hostile. How much more difficult life would be for the police if this attitude became widespread.

In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.

There's a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many.

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.