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Quotes About Accusation

Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne dass er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet.
~ Franz Kafka
He accepted it as a fundamental principle for an accused man to be always forearmed, never to let himself be caught napping, never to let his eyes stray unthinkingly to the right when his judge was looming up on the left--to the right when his judge was looming up on the left--and against that very principle he kept offending again and again.
~ Franz Kafka
You see, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law, and at the same time claims he's innocent.
~ Franz Kafka
it was her fault he hadn't eaten anything that evening
~ Franz Kafka
They think you are guilty. Your trial will perhaps not get any farther than one of the lower courts. At least for the moment they think your guilt is proven.' 'But I'm not guilty,' said K., 'it's a mistake. How can a person be guilty anyway? We're all human, every single one of us.' 'That is correct,' said the priest, 'but that's the way guilty people talk.
~ Franz Kafka
There's no way at all that you can defend yourself against this Court, you have to admit your guilt. Make a full confession as soon as you can
~ Franz Kafka
Ali svi se slažu u tome da se ne podižu lakomislene optužbe i da se sud, kad jedanput nekog optuži i kad je uvjeren u krivicu optuženog, vrlo teÅ¡ko može razuvjeriti. »TeÅ¡ko?« upita slikar i diže ruku uvis. »Sud se nikada ne mo?e razuvjeriti. Kad bih ovdje na platnu naslikao sve sudije redom i kad biste se Vi pred tim platnom branili imali biste viÅ¡e uspjeha nego pred pravim sudom« »
~ Franz Kafka
Right Wing watch falsely accused me of harassing Oliver Darcy, a reporter for CNN. However, I was practicing real journalism at a Conservative conference where it is the consensus that 'CNN' is fake news.
~ Laura Loomer
Sociopaths don't accept blame and often blame others for acts they obviously committed.
~ Rosalind Noonan
come se parimenti dalle proprie sofferenze vi fosse abilitato. E se gli altri non gli fanno il bene quasi per dovere, egli li accusa, e di tutto il male ch'egli fa quasi per diritto, facilmente si scusa.
~ Luigi Pirandello
Nicholas this is one of those 'yes' or 'no' questions again. You seem to have a problem with those. Did you or did you not kill a woman - Jo
~ Lynsay Sands
You must not refuse to do this, or you, too, will be accused. In the town they have convicted entire families." Richard said, "There was another carpenter, once, and he would have refused to do this thing. Him I will follow.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
İnsanlar?n baÅŸkalar?n? kendi kusurlar? yüzünden suçlamalar?n? çok duydum.
~ Maeve Binchy
I sat down and remembered a saying Old Aunt used to tell me whenever I complained that I had been wrongly accused: "Don't strike a flea on a tiger's head." Don't settle one trouble only to make a bigger one.
~ Amy Tan
Pope Innocent III decreed that all property belonging to a convicted heretic would be forfeited to the church; the church then shared it both with local officials and with the victim's accusers, as a reward for their candor.
~ Sam Harris
Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
he's indicted, his lawyer will cause delay after delay, and five years from now we'll
~ Sandra Brown
Having evidence of being wronged does not stop you from being judged as in the wrong.
~ Sara Ahmed
For some reason, blame is often directed toward me. I have to be vigilant.
~ Sarah Dessen
it is not what you do or don't do, but how convincingly you can be accused of it.
~ Sarah Dunant
Another reason I'm intrigued with the hanged of Salem, especially the women, is that a number of them aroused suspicion in the first place because they were financially independent, or sharp-tongued, or kept to themselves. In other words, they were killed off for living the same sort of life I live right now but with longer skirts and fewer cable channels.
~ Sarah Vowell
The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.
~ Scott Adams
Diotrephes and Demetrius 9 I have written something to the Church; but Diot'rephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority. 10So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, accusing me falsely with evil words. And not content with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the Church. 11 Beloved, do not
~ Scott Hahn
Some speak of the nobility of the law. Stern has not always found that to be true. Too much of the grubby bone shop, the odor of the abattoir, emanates from every criminal courtroom. It is at heart a very nasty business to accuse, to judge, to punish. But the law, at least, seeks to govern misfortune, to ensure that a society's wrath is not visited at random. In human affairs, reason will never fully triumph; but there is no better cause to champion. At
~ Scott Turow