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Otherwise, people will assume the worst motives".
"Northern Ireland is a place where people always suspect the worst motives; they don't go leaping about in the streets".
Because we see a regime as unfriendly, we assume the worst motives and intentions, fuelling our perception of threat.
It is hard to argue with this characterisation given that each side seems to impugn the worst motives to the other.
It may seem sometimes that America is being held to a different standard, and the readiness of some to assume the worst motives by our government can be frustrating.
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In a country divided into safe seats and politically homogeneous regions, it is too easy to conclude that opponents are scoundrels with the worst of motives, elected by voters with alien values.Examine the sharpest Washington disputes, and the doubting of motives is both rampant and damaging.
Everything the liberal elders do is for the worst possible motives.
To anyone who criticizes the church they will attribute the worst possible motives, at once dismissing the criticism and dehumanizing the critic.
This is apparent in our politics, where we're swift to impute the worst of motives to anyone slightly to our left or right.
What is also striking is how its protagonists routinely talk past one another, assuming the worst possible motives of their opponents and rarely acknowledging the other side might occasionally have a point.
Brendan O'Neill of the Daily Telegraph ascribed the worst possible motives to Monroe's campaign to feed her only child: why would she possibly want to write about nutrition, he wrote, except to patronise those on low wages, as if Monroe picked up a pencil with nothing but that in mind.
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