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Quotes About Accusation

I have never heard such a conversation outside a police court.
~ Emlyn Williams
existe un límite? ¿Causas que te negarías a defender? «Si me preguntas eso, quiere decir que no has comprendido qué es ser abogado. Yo no defiendo ninguna causa, pero no rechazo a ningún acusado.
~ Emmanuel Carrère
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
~ Epictetus
The man in a free society must either blame himself (which leads to the melancholia of those plagued by inferiority complexes) or will be bound to accuse imaginary conspiraces of ill-wishers and downright enemies.
~ Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Anything could happen," Spiderleg growled. "RiverClan might chase WindClan off the moor. They might decide to accuse us of taking the kits instead. Leafpool told Firestar that WindClan is desperate enough to do anything.
~ Erin Hunter
Are you saying that one of us killed Ashfur?
~ Erin Hunter
Birchfall, you asked for that." Brambleclaw paused in digging up his vole. "ShadowClan shouldn't have accused us of trying to cross the border, but you put us in the wrong when you started the fight. Warriors should know how to control themselves." "Sorry," Birchfall mumbled. "So you should be.
~ Erin Hunter
He half-hears the familiar accusation that the policeman drones, a terribly matter-of-fact drone. Another raid on a suspected flat. Routine, routine. Evil has its eternal root in the cities. A tireless Satan, bored with the monotony of his rôle; a tireless Justice, bored with the routine of tears and pleadings, lies and guilt. There is no story in all this.
~ Ben Hecht
Most of us carry at least a weak sense of a correlation between poetry and human possibility that cannot be realized by poems. The poet, by his very claim to be a maker of poems, is therefore both an embarrassment and accusation.
~ Ben Lerner
This is one underlying reason why poetry is so often met with contempt rather than mere indifference and why it is periodically denounced as opposed to simply dismissed: Most of us carry at least a weak sense of a correlation between poetry and human possibility that cannot be realized by poems. The poet, by his very claim to be a maker of poems, is therefore both an embarrassment and accusation.
~ Ben Lerner
There will be no conversation in which you call me a racist, and I explain why I'm not a racist. That's a conversation for idiots.
~ Ben Shapiro
You know he's going to call you a racist, because he always calls his opponents racist.
~ Ben Shapiro
MORGAN: I'm not the one who came in here and accused you of standing on the graves of dead children -- SHAPIRO: Because you're the one who is doing that. I'm punching back twice as hard. MORGAN: That's what I call bullying. SHAPIRO: You know what I call it? Punching back twice as hard, in the words of President Obama.
~ Ben Shapiro
I vigorously deny hitting Ms. Sheridan.
~ Marc Cherry
I never have been in Bernie Fine's hotel room in my life.
~ Jim Boeheim
At that exact moment, 6-0-0, the sun climbed over the skyline of oaks, revealing its full summer angry-god self. Its reflection flared across the river toward our house, a long, blaring finger aimed at me through our frail bedroom curtains. Accusing: You have been seen. You will be seen.
~ Gillian Flynn
It was him. The boy in 'I met a boy!
~ Gillian Flynn
Finger, whore, hollow!
~ Gillian Flynn
As we rounded a small pavilion, we nearly stepped into a pair of figures — who leapt apart. One was William de la Touche Clancey. The other was a well-made boy of perhaps sixteen, carefully got up to resemble a swell; only the red blunt hands betrayed the fact that he was a workie. So! Clancey gave his accusing goose-like hiss. The boy looked embarrassed, as well he should. There are some things that the poor ought not to do even for money.
~ Gore Vidal
Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.
~ Brendan I. Koerner
The only thing worse than domestic violence or abuse is being accused of it when you haven't done it.
~ Joy Taylor
You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it.
~ Jonah Goldberg
Being falsely accused of racism is, at best, unpleasant and at worst, can destroy a career.
~ Munira Mirza
The worst thing I could be accused of is that I'm a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you're starting a relationship.
~ Matt Dillon