Quotes About Accuse

The true function of the Law is to accuse and to kill; but the function of the gospel is to make alive. 1483-1546 GFRMAN PRIFST WHO FOUNDED THE LUTHERAN CHURCH

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

It is easy for faction and calumny to shed their poison on the administration of the best of princes, and to accuse even their virtues, by artfully confounding them with those vices to which they bear the nearest affinity.

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Will Cody was always quite open about his drinking, although none of the officers he served under ever went on record to accuse him of drinking on duty. Off duty it was another matter altogether. On the morning after the first day's march, General Duncan, whom Cody called "a jolly, blustering old fellow," proposed a shooting match.

To accuse the American male of not bathing in Paris is merely to flatter him.

Had I ever been that powerful creature who so dazzled many that he could slaughter a gathering of mortals and no one would dare accuse save in whispers?

not now. She'd fought back, hard. Only to have her lawsuit thrown out by the first judge, her lawyers quit on her, and defeat wash over her like a bitter shower of acid. You can't sue a religion. You can't accuse a saint. Stella Connery was of sound mind when she made her will

The good in a true book, he would say, is the best protection against what may not be so good in it; its wrong as well as its right may wake the conscience: the thoughts of a book accuse and excuse one another. In saying so, he took the true reader for granted; to an untrue reader the truth itself is untrue.

For a perilous moment, she hovered on the brink of losing her temper, but her ever- ready sense of the absurd came to her rescue, and instead of yielding to the impulse to come to points with him she broke into sudden laughter, and said: 'How unhandsome of you to have given me such a set- down, when I had already begged your pardon!' 'How unjust of you to accuse me of giving you a set- down when all I did was to agree with you!' he retorted.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

It was, however, a delicate matter for colonists to accuse the British of trying to enslave them, because abject slavery was such a prominent feature of colonial life. This was noted with irony, of course, in England, where Dr. Samuel Johnson, for example, asked, "How is it that the loudest yelps for liberty come from the drivers of slaves?

I would never accuse the Irish people of being in any way stupid.

He who excuses himself accuses himself.

He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.)

If a government has no motivation to guarantee human rights within its borders, those rights can disappear. If those whose rights are violated cannot find protection, they are unlikely to accuse and fight those with guns and power.

We orphans We lament to the world: Stones have become our playthings, Stones have faces, father and mother faces They wilt not like flowers, nor bite like beasts-- And burn not like tinder when tossed into the oven-- We orphans we lament to the world: World, why have you taken our soft mothers from us And the fathers who say: My child, you are like me! We orphans are like no one in the world any more! O world We accuse you!

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.

It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Jude and I had a misunderstanding," Cardan says carefully. "But we're not enemies. And I am not your enemy, either, Taryn." "You think everything's a game," she says. "You and Locke." "Unlike Locke, I never thought love was a game," he says. "You may accuse me of much, but not that.