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Quotes About Accusation

People who accuse you of being unfair, for example, who try to make you feel guilty, who talk about justice and morality, are trying to gain an advantage on the chessboard.
~ Robert Greene
Finally, those who claim to be nonplayers may affect an air of naïveté, to protect them from the accusation that they are after power. Beware again, however, for the appearance of naiveté can be an effective means of deceit
~ Robert Greene
He was unable to get it out of his mind. Was it really possible that he had spent the past thirty years worshipping the church rather than God? Because that, in essence, was the accusation Benitez had leveled against him.
~ Robert Harris
Usually when a woman was in the wrong, she could find so many things to blame on the nearest man that he wound up thinking maybe he really was at fault.
~ Robert Jordan
It's always a man's fault." One
~ Robert Jordan
Jeremy: Who did it? Wait-you think I did. Don't you? Ash: It did cross our minds at one point. Actually, it seemed to keep crossing them. Back and forth. Maybe we should put in a crosswalk.
~ L.J. Smith
It almost seemed to her that those secret, unuttered, critical thoughts had suddenly taken visible and accusing shape and form in the person of this outspoken morsel of neglected humanity.
~ L.M. Montgomery
For God's sake, no." Brenda's voice is sharp. "I told you, he never told me about any fifty thousand. What are you implying here? You want to make me out as some kind of slut? A whore? You want the jury to think that Dagou tried to pay me to move in with him?
~ Lan Samantha Chang
either you're a whore, or you think I am. The first I'm willing to believe. The second I know isn't true.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
It was after 2:00 A.M. before we got back to the graveyard. The Feds had kept us forever, like they didn't believe we were telling them the whole truth. Fancy that. I hated being accused of concealing evidence when I wasn't. Made me want to lie to them just so they wouldn't be disappointed.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Todos necesitamos designar a los enemigos de la seguridad para evitar ser considerados parte de ellos... Necesitamos acusar para ser absueltos, excluir para evitar la exclusión. Necesitamos confiar en la eficacia de los dispositivos de vigilancia para permitirnos creer que las criaturas decentes que somos saldrán ilesas de las trampas que ponen esos dispositivos. Y para confirmarnos y reafirmarnos en nuestra decencia y en lo adecuado de nuestro comportamiento
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
~ Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.
~ Aesop
We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.
~ Aidan Chambers
It was hard for them to accuse their wives of infidelity when their rival was an invisible man.
~ Diane Wakoski
What in the world? I stare at him, my mouth open. "I never said you had an STD!
~ Jenny Han
When I say we should never ask why, I am not talking about the reactive and spontaneous cry of anguish when calamity first befalls us or one we love. Rather, I am speaking of the persistent and demanding why that has an accusatory tone toward God in it.
~ Jerry Bridges
Often God takes what is intended as a criticism and turns it into a compliment. The Pharisees said of Jesus, "This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them" (Luke 15:2). Christ's enemies meant it as an accusation; we take it as an accolade!
~ Jerry Vines
The only thing we're supposed to do is get Mrs. Allred off.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
I have been told, both in approval and in accusation, that I seem to love all my characters.
~ Eudora Welty
And never farting pointed to guilt in the courthouse of my mind.
~ Andrew Smith
A couple of buffoons were running for some state-senate seat just vacated by the incumbent's prison term. One accused the other of being "against the Internet" - a knockout punch in a world where whole hordes of humans think better sex is a faster modem.
~ Andrew Vachss
Ciri accusava con voce stridula Cohen di imbrogliare al gioco. Cohen l'abbracciò e scoppiò a ridere. La maga si rese conto all'improvviso che fino ad ora non aveva mai sentito ridere uno strigo.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
And even if you don't make a mistake, an opportunity will arise to blame you for something. Some misfortune, some disaster, some pestilence, perhaps a plague or an epidemic, will fall on humanity… Then your guilt will descend on you. You will not be blamed for having been unable to prevent the plague, but for being unable to remove its effects. You shall be to blame for everything. And then fires will be lit under stakes.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski