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Quotes About Accused

birini iÅŸaret ederek suçlarken iÅŸaret parma??n?z onu, diÄŸer üç parma??n?z ise sizi gösterir.
~ Sigmund Freud
I say you are the murderer you hunt.
~ Sophocles
The caricature of me in 1986 was not correct. I do not harbor the kind of animosity and race-based discrimination ideas that I was accused of. I did not.
~ Jeff Sessions
I get accused of being a social worker every now and then.
~ Janet Reno
How is justice served if the victim and the accused are working together to make it all go away? Somebody please explain that to me.
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
In an ordinary crime, how does one defend the accused? One calls up witnesses to prove his innocence. But witchcraft is ipso facto, on its face and by its nature an invisible crime, is it not? The witch and the victim. None other. Now we cannot hope the witch will accuse herself; granted? Therefore, we must rely upon her victims - and they do testify, the children certainly do testify.
~ Arthur Miller
They denounced him for his "Parliamentary Cretinism" and accused him of "providing relief to the people and thereby blunting the People's Consciousness and diverting them from the Revolution.
~ Arundhati Roy
Hank and I were accused of abusing our authority by allegedly forcing Bank of America to go through with the deal.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
You're trying to make me crazy, aren't you?" "Not at all." Sara put her bowl down. "I'm just saying there could be bunny shifters." "THERE ARE NO BUNNY SHIFTERS!" Shaking her head she accused, "You're a bunny bigot." Zach threw his spoon back in the near-empty bowl. "And there is no such thing as bunny bigots." "Bunny bigot," she accused again.
~ Shelly Laurenston
If time is a staircase, reality is a Slinky. Decades can be parsed. Television, frequently accused of destabilizing life, is actually what stitches the segments together.
~ Louis Menand
When it comes to those who are accused and their right to defend themselves, it is perfectly reasonable to expect relevant evidence to be made public, and I am in favour of open justice.
~ David Blunkett
I was very identified with and accused of being a neo-liberal with respect to the economy.
~ Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
It may have all been a bravura show of solidarity by a bunch of scared people who saw their world crashing down on them, but it looked real to me. The accused looked like a bunch of carefree kids who had just wrapped up high school and were heading off to the shore for some sun and fun before they started college. Then I heard a voice next to me saying, "It's such a tragedy. They're such beautiful boys and this will scar them forever.
~ Bernard Lefkowitz
The Warren Court swung the balance of power toward the accused—and the counterbalance of skepticism moved the other way. Trials were once spontaneous, quick and dramatic; now they are rehearsed, endless and often boring, interminable bullshit from professional witnesses who have practiced their skills at sparring with defense attorneys. The jury looks upon the accused as if he must be guilty, or why would he be here?
~ Bill James
The great irony of the Boudreau story is that the formal judicial system constantly scolded the accused for 'taking the law into their own hands' without ever recognizing that the accused had repeatedly and unsuccessfully tried to persuade the authorities to deal with Phillip. The root causes of the tragedy include a systemic failure of the legal system itself.
~ Silver Donald Cameron
You cheated!" she accused Ragnar. "But you learned a lesson," I said, squatting beside her as if I were going to tell her a secret. I leaned forward and whispered in her ear, "Never trust a Dane.
~ Bernard Cornwell
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
~ Clifford Geertz
I'm accused constantly of having 'no signature.' That's the big artistic demerit. You can't tell a Wyler film from another man's film just by looking at it.
~ William Wyler
The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior power of men. It therefore provides strong guarantees for the rights of the accused but essentially no guarantees for the rights of the victim. If one set out by design to devise a system for provoking intrusive post-traumatic symptoms, one could not do better than a court of law.
~ Judith Lewis Herman
Almost wherever Chinese communities went, they were accused of vice, violence and mutiny, of being a secretive, alien, xenophobic community that refused to integrate with Anglo-Saxon society.
~ Julia Lovell
When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.
~ Joseph Wambaugh
A Scottish, mopping his brow with his kilt was accused of indecent exposure!
~ Fabrice
The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'
~ Bob Barr
There had, of course, been notorious murders in Indiana before. Perhaps the most sensational was the 1895 case of Reverend William E. Hinshaw. A much-admired figure in the village of Belleville, Hinshaw was accused of killing his wife, Thirza—who had discovered his affair
~ Harold Schechter