Verdacht / Suspicion Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Verdacht / Suspicion:

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion. Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.

John Foxe

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

Lion Feuchtwanger

I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.

Mark Hamill

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

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Thomas Paine

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.

Alvin Adams

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

Bill Keller

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Edmund Burke

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.

Barton Gellman

I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.

Ian Anderson

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

Tom Hanks

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

Julius Caesar

There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

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

Alexander Cockburn

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.

Richard Powers

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.

Bill Toomey

I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

Samantha Bond

One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed.

Nicholas Kristof

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

E. B. White

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

John Buchanan Robinson

If the Walkman had, by default, silently contacted your friends and told them what you were listening to, not only would no one have bought a Walkman in the first place, its designers would have been viewed with the utmost suspicion.

Charlie Brooker

Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

Ralph Steadman

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

Elia Kazan

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

William Shakespeare

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.

Kin Hubbard

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Henry David Thoreau

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

There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do.

John Harvey Kellogg

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

Richard Dooling

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.

Elihu Root

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.

J. William Fulbright

Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies.

Donna Leon

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

Edsger Dijkstra

Yes, it is frustrating to listen to those who foment fear, suspicion and intolerance, who don't know the mistakes of history, and are in the midst of repeating them. Have faith that the character of the American people as a whole is such that, in the end, we will choose not to drink this brand of soiled milk.

Jeh Johnson