#suspicion

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

#already #america #anyone #attention #course

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#culture #cultured #enough #first #hand

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#greet #important #less #official #ordinary

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another. ↗

— Jane Porter

#better #defects #dislike #found #heard

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion. ↗

— John Langhorne

#caesar #should #suspicion #wife

We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion or work with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice is yours. (22) ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#choice #equality #exclusion #hatred #inclusion

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#cannot #defend #how #i #imagine

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough. ↗

— Noel Coward

#certainly #deal #enough #good #good deal

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion. ↗

— Demosthenes

#against #democracies #despots #especially #generally

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#flavor #fraud #perhaps #suspicion