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Quotes About Accusation

I - listen, racism - being a racist is the worst thing you can say about somebody. I mean, it is such a charged accusation. And I really think people should be very careful before they level that.
~ Megyn Kelly
It basically was the worst thing to be called as a businessman: to be falsely labelled an impostor.
~ Omar Amanat
Popular Monster' is the voice inside my head, hoping you will listen. It's the story of a hero that's been falsely accused and torn down by society. It shows what happens when you get pushed too far.
~ Ronnie Radke
Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
History needs to be mightily inventive about human life because bare life is an accusation against man's dominion of the earth.
~ Sebastian Barry
Yeah. If everything else fails, we'll use the S-O-D-D-I defense." "SODDI?" Pete asks. "Some Other Dude Did It. We need to give the jury a choice.
~ Sheldon Siegel
You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, Praise the eternal justice of man!
~ Mary Shelley
On being charged with the fact, the poor girl confirmed the suspicion in a grat measure by her extreme confusion of manner.
~ Mary Shelley
The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they may be, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
~ Mary Shelley
Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder, and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature.
~ Mary Shelley
The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
~ Mary Shelly
I could not sustain the horror of my situation, and when I perceived that the popular voice and the countenances of the judges had already condemned my unhappy victim, I rushed out of the court in agony. The tortures of the accused did not equal mine; she was sustained by innocence, but the fangs of remorse tore my bosom and would not forgo their hold.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Puede que sea inocente del crimen, ¡pero está claro que tiene mala conciencia!
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder, and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Escúchame, Frankenstein. Me acusas de asesinato; y sin embargo destruirías, con la conciencia tranquila, a tu propia criatura. ¡Loada sea la eterna justicia del hombre! Pero no pido que me perdones; escúchame y luego, si puedes, y si quieres, destruye la obra que creaste con tus propias manos.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
He may be innocent of the murder, but he has certainly a bad conscience.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they may be, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned. Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
But when I heard that this old man, who went from accuser to being the accused, had been staked out on his back in a field and the deputies had piled stone upon stone on his chest, it made me wonder about the kind of people who were convicting us. Where was Satan? Wasn't he hiding in the folds of the judges' coats? Wasn't he speaking in the voices of these magistrates and men of religion?
~ Maryse Condé
Until Frances Glessner Lee] It used to be that when someone died, there was no set method for examining the body and the scene. All kinds of people would be sent who had no formal training, and they'd contaminate the scene. Sometimes people would be accused of murder when it was an accident and the other way around
~ Maureen Johnson
They were not fighting over what to do, but over whom to blame.
~ Ayn Rand
You're unbearably conceited, was one of the two sentences she heard throughout her childhood, even though she never spoke of her own ability. The other sentence was: You're selfish. She asked what was meant, but never received an answer. She looked at the adults, wondering how they could imagine that she would feel guilt from an undefined accusation.
~ Ayn Rand
Cuando alguien acusa a otro de no tener sentimientos, ello significa que tal persona es justa. Que se trata de un ser cuyas emociones nunca carecen de base, de alguien que nunca otorgará sentimientos que el otro no merezca. Significa que sentir es ir contra la razón, contra los valores morales y contra la realidad.
~ Ayn Rand
Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.
~ Ayn Rand
She looked at the adults, wondering how they could imagine that she would feel guilt from an undefined accusation.
~ Ayn Rand