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Quotes About Accusation

It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.
~ C.J. Sansom
It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Russians accuse Mao of seeking "world holocaust.
~ Edgar Snow
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.
~ Edmund Burke
Say it ain't so, Joe.
~ Anonymous
Accuse not a servant unto his master.
~ Anonymous
Daniel had convicted them of false witness by their own mouth.
~ Anonymous
the doctor recognizes himself in the bear's awareness, a nameless silhouette in the landscape, cleansed of every accusation;
~ Anthony Doerr
An incident occurred while Cato was speaking which caused much amusement at his expense. A letter was brought in for Caesar, and Cato immediately accused him of being in touch with the conspirators. He challenged him to read the note out loud. Caesar simply passed it across: it was a love letter from Servilia, Caesar's mistress at the time and Cato's half-sister. Cato threw it back angrily with the words: "Take it, you drunken idiot.
~ Anthony Everitt
warned him against your play. I said that it was too peculiar for a modern audience and that nobody would understand what you were trying to get at. Is it a comedy? Is it a thriller? What is it, exactly? But he had complete faith in you, and now you turn up with your detective friend and cast aspersions on a man who is absolutely blameless and wouldn't dream of hurting anyone.
~ Anthony Horowitz
The trouble with this place is that everyone is super-sensitive and you can all too easily get accused of favouritism. I'm just telling you the facts. He was very ambitious. He'd have stabbed his own mother if it would help him to get cast.
~ Anthony Horowitz
closed my eyes, quietly adding casual racism to the charge sheet against Hawthorne
~ Anthony Horowitz
Akira Anno is Mark Belladonna, isn't she! Mark doesn't exist.' He rounded on Akira. 'You wrote those stupid books.
~ Anthony Horowitz
I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!
~ Anthony Horowitz
It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.
~ Michael Specter
There are three things. Either somebody invested Rs 5 crore or somebody loaned this much money. The third thing is that Rajpal Yadav was involved in a fraud. Only one of these three things can be right. Please let me know which of these I am getting punished for.
~ Rajpal Yadav
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
~ Philip Massinger
If someone is trying to frame you, don't you want to know who, what, when, where and why?
~ Trish Regan
Fraud is corrosive, but so is claiming fraud where there is none.
~ Miranda Devine
But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation.
~ Ford Madox Ford
Though I believe you're a good lad. But you're the sort of fellow to set a whole division by the ears… A regular… what's 'is name? A regular Dreyfus!" "Did you think Dreyfus was guilty?" Tietjens asked. "Hang it," the General said, "he was worse than guilty—the sort of fellow you couldn't believe in and yet couldn't prove anything against. The curse of the world...
~ Ford Madox Ford
Regina didn't answer, and that made Jessica fume. What's wrong with this girl? she wondered. Why is she treating me like dirty dishwater? Then she began to piece it together. The stumble, the lack of response to Jessica—It was only natural to conclude that the Morrow girl was drunk. Say, Regina, Jessica called. She took a few steps toward her and tapped her on the shoulder. Where are you hiding the booze?
~ Francine Pascal
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
~ Franz Kafka
Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law and at the same time insists he's innocent.
~ Franz Kafka