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Quotes About Accusation

They credited only their own prejudices, whence the accusation of "misanthropy," a crime imputed to them by Cicero, Seneca, Celsius, and, with them, all antiquity.
~ Emil M. Cioran
But there is a complementary faith among the damned which involves their gathering of the stones with which those who walk in the light shall stone them; or there exists among the intolerably degraded the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes if which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.
~ baldwin james ix
I was humiliated to be charged with something so contemptible as sexual harassment. People think we had this big affair. It was a personal relationship that amounted to very little. I told her that I thought it was a mistake, and she became furious and sued me. She ended up dropping the case.
~ barker bob ii
I have been denounced for passive corruption without having received anything of value. Where is the concrete proof that I received something of value?
~ Michel Temer
Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.
~ Caryl Chessman
Alcoholic is a big word, but I'd have a hard time defending myself against it in court.
~ Frank Skinner
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
~ Elias Canetti
I was always a little hesitant to accuse people of loading a bat to hit a ball farther. I was always very hesitant to approach people because I never had any evidence that I had firsthand knowledge of.
~ Joe Torre
All saints should be judged guilty until proven innocent.
~ George Orwell
It is as though in the middle of a chess tournament one competitor should suddenly begin screaming that the other is guilty of arson or bigamy. The point that is really at issue remains untouched. Libel settles nothing...
~ George Orwell
Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting 'Traitor!' and 'Thought-criminal!', the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.
~ George Orwell
Suddenly they were both leaping round him, shouting "Traitor!" and "Thought-criminal!", the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.
~ George Orwell
Did you imagine that you would make me believe ill of Sophy with your foolish and spiteful letter!' he demanded. 'You have tried to set me against her from the outset, but you over-reached yourself today, my girl! How dared you write in such terms to me! How could you have been so crassly stupid as to suppose that Sophy could ever need your countenance to set her right in the eyes of the world, or that I would believe one word of slander against her?
~ Georgette Heyer
You don't understand!" she exclaimed bitterly. "That," said his lordship, with a touch of acidity, "is a foolish accusation which lacks even the saving grace of originality! Every generation, my child, has said, or thought, that the preceding one was devoid of understanding or experience.
~ Georgette Heyer
Baker Brooks —can get dogs to follow him —said that selling stolen dogs is easy money —was around Dog Gone Good when Grayson was stolen —accused Roxanne of stealing Boxcar, then changed his mind "The third person
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
I get accused of being a social worker every now and then.
~ Janet Reno
I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.
~ Joseph R. McCarthy
In the modern workplace, sexism has adopted a more subtle persona; therefore, people can be accused of sexism where it's far harder to determine whether they're actually committing sexism or thinking in a sexist way.
~ Jed Mercurio
In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!
~ Bette Davis
Till a person is proven guilty, no one should attack him or her.
~ Salim Kumar
I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then having the nerve to accuse conservatives of hatred.
~ Allen West
I SPEAK TO YOU FROM THE DEPTHS OF YOUR BEING. Hear Me saying soothing words of Peace, assuring you of My Love. Do not listen to voices of accusation, for they are not from Me. I speak to you in love-tones, lifting you up.
~ Sarah Young
Remember that Satan is the accuser of believers. He delights in heaping guilt feelings upon you, especially when you are enjoying My Presence. When you feel Satan's arrows of accusation, you are probably on the right track. Use your shield of faith to protect yourself from him. Talk with Me about what you are experiencing, and ask Me to show you the way forward. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to Me, and I will come near to you.
~ Sarah Young
The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.
~ Scott Adams