Quotes About Suspicion

The estrangement between Edwards and his people began in 1744, in connection with a case of discipline in which a large number of the youth belonging to the leading families of the town were brought under suspicion of reading and circulating immoral books.

Stalin's Russia was a trap, in which even those running the system were caught. The leaders were trapped by fear of Stalin and even he was trapped by his fear of their desire to be rid of him. Everything he had to eat or drink had to be tasted by one of his colleagues first. Beria's behavior at his death showed that his fear was only partly paranoia.

If you take home one souvenir from this part of the tour, may I suggest that it be a suspicion of moral monists. Beware of anyone who insists that there is one true morality for all people, times, and places—particularly if that morality is founded upon a single moral foundation. Human societies are complex; their needs and challenges are variable.

and had been observed entering and exiting one of Larue's current

Donald Trump of the crime scene," I said.

Not a word about the tiny bones. I wondered why a married woman would avoid the plural form.

Grumbling, grimacing, and mumbled curses peak during the muddled middle of murder investigations, when promising leads break their promises.

I have always been careful of people who say they are behind me because that's where you need to be if you are going to stab them in the back.

When Chong made to sit down next to her, Lilah drew her knife and stabbed the point into the earth between them. "I can see that you need some quiet time," he said and scuttled quickly away.

Then this other guy, the thirteenth guy, comes crashing right into me. Even with all that was going on I thought, Drug addict. He was pale and sweaty, stank like raw sewage, and had a glazed bug-eyed stare. Sick bastard even tried to bite me, but

Norm protesting his innocence and grassing Dave up himself. Who was his dad going to believe? Him or his stupid little brother? No, his dad had obviously made his mind up and nothing was going to change it. Norm was guilty. Same as flipping always.

You speak to Quattrocchi and he's dead. You visit Étienne Chaudron and he's dead—" "I don't know anything about that!" I bolted up, knocking my chair to the floor.

You can't trust actors.

I can't imagine what they're planning. But I can tell you two things. We won't like it, and it won't be legal.

A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

No matter how noble the objective of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion - it is an evil government.

It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

paranoia, the first cousin of a bastard named fear

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

We are saying that women -- as a sex -- are not more sinful than men. Women are not more deceivable than men. Women are not less intelligent than men. Women are not more prone to error than men. Women are not more dangerous than men. Women are not more arrogant or domineering than men. Women are not to be viewed with more suspicion than men. All women are born into sin, unrighteous by both nature and choice -- as are all men.

Why is it I think you're lying, Brigid?" "Because you spent your entire life surrounded by liars and can't fathom the concept of honesty? Or honor and integrity. Or any other attribute of a good officer.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: Their measurements are being taken and compared.

If looks could kill, Mira's assistant would be wanted for murder, thought Malone.