There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.
Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.
I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.
The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong.
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
If a man tells you that he is fond of the , view him with sudden suspicion; he is either a dabbler or a Saint.
You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt.
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.
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.
Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
