Suspicion Quotes - Page 18

• While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Numbers, Humanity, Atheism

  John B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1945). “Possible Worlds”, p.224, Transaction Publishers

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• The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.

  Cullen Hightower

  Ideas, Skepticism, Subjects

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• Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed down in any way to our posterity; for it is worse than absurd that parties should be found disagreeing on the very principles, after we have been compelled to make our departure from the world.

  John Calvin

  Party, Differences, Departure

  Letter to Philip Melanchthon, November 28, 1552.

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• Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

  Soong May-ling

  Distance, Airplane, Government

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• Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  America, Attention, Imitation

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• Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.

  Aravind Adiga

  Dad, Son, People

  "Indians' worst fear: the honest politician". www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.

  Sade Adu

  Views, People, Cameras

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• I've got a deep dark suspicion that pretty soon we should start looking around for another planet for ourselves.

  Wolfgang Borchert

  Dark, Should, Planets

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• He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Trust, Men, World

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• We need to create an enterprise culture, a society where successful entrepreneurs are respected and admired, not treated with suspicion and disdain. And in which we see less envy of other peoples' achievements and mistrust of commerce, and a greater readiness to get out there and join in the process.

  Norman Tebbit

  Successful, Envy, Entrepreneur

  Speech to the Institute of Directors' Annual Conference, February 26, 1985.

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• So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, those who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end.

  Barack Obama

  Differences, Justice, Long

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• I have the strong suspicion that when the brain's greed system is in operation, those parts of the brain that regulate ethical conduct are de-activated. Perhaps the greater the amount of money to be made, the greater the deactivation of the system that regulates ethical behaviour.

  Semir Zeki

  Strong, Greed, Brain

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• That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are not rare.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Bigs, Planets, Big Questions

  "Why Revive ‘Cosmos?’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Just About Everything We Know Has Changed". Interview With David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

  Rod Serling

  Peace, Ubuntu, Prejudice

  The Twilight Zone (television show), 4 Mar. 1960

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• Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on partisan or factional grounds, so that there shall be gradually a growth, even though a slow growth, in the knowledge that the Federal courts and the representatives of the Federal Department of Justice insist on meting out even-handed justice to all.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Government, Justice, Growth

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “1903-1905”

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• In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Jealousy, Lust, Want

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• Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.

  Dylan Thomas

  Reading, Cat, Bags

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• Lying and cheating in advertising, in the long run, are commercial suicide. Dishonesty in advertising destroys not only confidence in advertising, but also in the medium which carries the dishonest advertisement. . . . No one can be ill in a community without endangering others; no advertiser can be dishonest without casting suspicion upon others.

  Daniel Starch

  Suicide, Running, Cheating

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• There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics.

  Miroslav Volf

  America, Leader, Political

  "Muslim Radicalization Hearings: A Political Spectacle That Perpetuates Prejudice" by Miroslav Volf, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 9, 2011.

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• To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Self Esteem, Men

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.364, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.

  Jessica Cutler

  People, Want, Needs

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• Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that makes a crop every so often and usually right they have an affinity for evil for supplying whatever the evil lacks in itself for drawing it about them instinctively as you do bed-clothing in slumber fertilizing the mind for it until the evil has served its purpose whether it ever existed or no.

  William Faulkner

  Women, Drawing, People

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• Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Healing, Our World

  "The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is". Book by N. T. Wright, 1999.

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• Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

  Elia Kazan

  Hysteria, Facts, Mystery

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• Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

  Franz Kafka

  Moving, Knowing, People

  Franz Kafka (1983). “The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka”

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