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Quotes About Accusation

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.
~ Walter Kirn
What do you think you're doing?" she asks, hands on her hips. Her lips quiver a bit as she speaks, though, and I get the distinct impression she's trying not to laugh. I sigh, used to being falsely accused of wrongdoing by my naturally suspicious parents. "I fell." I attempt to shrug my shoulders, but they don't move. "And now I'm stuck," I add.
~ Wendy Mass
Pornography, it is said, presents false images about women. Pornography is a lie, because it presents women as large-breasted nymphomanics. If this accusation is true, the remedy is not to ban pornography, but to recruit a wider variety of women into the industry.
~ Wendy McElroy
Hence that morganatic bond between the forces of the left and the forces of the right (a director of a big steel company, the co-owner of a great department store, a figure high in the Republican organization, come quickly to mind) which made confusing common cause in exculpating Hiss by defaming Chambers.
~ Whittaker Chambers
Q is like a stupid Internet Troll; he makes some strawman accusation against Picard, Picard refutes his argument with logic and reason, and Q just changes the terms of the argument, all the while enjoying the attention he's getting. But does anyone create alt.q.die.die.die? No, of course not. Life is so fucking unfair.
~ Wil Wheaton
Düzen"in ç?karlar? u?rana öldürmeyi sürdürüyorsun; ama korkakça, sinsi sinsi öldürüyorsun. Beni herkesin önünde ahlâks?zl?kla suçlarken do?rudan gözlerimin içine bakamazs?n. Çünkü hangimizin daha ahlâks?z, hangimizin ?ehvet dü?künü, hangimizin aç?k saç?k yay?nlar?n hayran? oldu?unu çok iyi biliyorsun.
~ Wilhelm Reich
Pensò al Giudizio universale. Non credeva che avrebbero davvero messo in piedi un simile evento. Gli imputati avevano argomenti per difendersi, alcuni dibattimenti non sarebbero stati graditi a Dio. Insetti, sporcizia, dolore. L'inadeguatezza di tutto. Perfino con lo spazio e il tempo non aveva fatto un lavoro per bene. Se lo si fosse citato in giudizio, pensava proprio che avrebbe avuto un paio di cosette da dirgli.
~ Daniel Kehlmann
Et puis s'accuser tous azimuts, on se met à l'abri de bien des exigences. (p.116)
~ Daniel Pennac
We dare to fight back, and the terrorists accuse us of being the real terrorists." "It's their secret weapon, Mikhail. Get used to it.
~ Daniel Silva
When you find yourself in a position where you could easily point an accusing finger—or have an accusing finger pointed at you—think, trust, and forgive.
~ Darlene Zschech
When you've been falsely accused of serious crimes as often I have, you learn to recognize the oncoming inevitability of the next one.
~ David A. McIntee
blaming the Republicans for everything, Republicans are blaming the Democrats and nobody seems to want to take responsibility for anything.
~ David Archer
There exists among the intolerably degraded the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual the fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.
~ James Baldwin
Thomas was sick of being accused of knowing things.
~ James Dashner
Satan's kryptonite is separation through slander. He slanders God to us and us to God.
~ James MacDonald
The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.
~ James Richardson
Oh, ye've a temper,' said Archie consideringly. 'And ye had a rare old time losing it, and ye were like enough justified at that. But take a thought, too. Are ye to accuse Graham Malett in the law courts from the flat o' a bier-claith, or on two sticks like a wife wi' Arthretica? If ye're tae walk upright like the fine, testy gentleman ye are, ye'll need some nursing, I'd say. So I fear Guthrie and I had best bide.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
This man Jerott,' said Danny Hislop accusingly. 'You said he was middle-aged.' Jerott turned. 'I didn't,' said Adam Blacklock indignantly. 'I said he was stinking rich and cut his old allies dead in the street. I did not say he was middle-aged.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I didn't mind thinking you were a murderer, said Lady Mary spitefully, but I do mind you being such an ass.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who already think you're guilty---will find it for you.
~ Douglas Adams
You," he began. "You bastards." Silence. "Where was the FBI these past four days? This was your fault—your fault!" His voice, starting out in a whisper, crescendoed by the end into a roar, spittle flecking his lips.
~ Douglas Preston
It is one thing to know that a man is guilty, it is quite another matter to prove him so.
~ Agatha Christie
In the words of a best seller, 'You've nothing on me.
~ Agatha Christie
The family would come under suspicion," he said, "and it might remain under suspicion for a long time—perhaps for ever. If one of the family was guilty it is possible that they themselves would not know which one. They would look at each other and—wonder … Yes, that's what would be the worst of all. They themselves would not know which…
~ Agatha Christie