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Quotes About Accusation

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
~ Azar Nafisi
Aren't you going to invite me in? No. You aren't very polite. That is a virtue I am seldom accused of possessing. Don't sulk, Cousin, it spoils the shape of that charming mouth.
~ Barbara Michaels
They may accuse you of consorting with witches or communists or even economists.
~ Steven D. Levitt
He does not show humility who accuses himself (for who will not accept rebukes from himself?), but he who, being rebuked by another, does not decrease his love toward him.
~ John Climacus
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
But I blame you," he growled through gritted teeth. "You killed my father!
~ Erin Hunter
My accusation seemed to detonate on his face like a bomb. His features began to contort, but I turned my back on him so I wouldn't have to see the rest of his reaction. I walked out of there as fast as I could without looking
~ Ernest Cline
acusaron de defender "el comunismo de la propiedad".
~ Ernesto Cardenal
Really, doesn´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It speaks rather in his favor. This used to be much better understood.
~ Ernst Junger
The unholy alliance of religion and politics collaborated in finding Jesus guilty.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
That is Jeremiah's accusation: "You have found a safe place, haven't you! This nice, clean temple. You spend all week out in the world doing what you want to do, taking advantage of others, exploiting the weak, cursing the person who isn't pliable to your plans, and then you repair to this place where everything is in order and protected and right.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Words like 'custody' don't mean the same thing to him. I don't want us to own anything together. "You don't want to be happy," he accuses me.
~ Eula Biss
If you accuse me of superstition, then you should call what he has rolling around his head madness. He'll end up in prison or as a writer, which is just as bad – a prisoner of his own stories.
~ Evald Flisar
There was never a shred, never a hint, never a possibility - not a remote, not a million-, not a billion-to-one possibility - I could have planted anything. Nor would I have a reason to.
~ Mark Fuhrman
At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do.
~ Michael Leunig
Hate-filled people easily believe and repeat slanderous lies about innocent men.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
I have accused L.B. Management of failing to report to me, and I've told L.B. Management the money is missing, and it could very well be embezzled.
~ Jeff Greene
That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way.
~ Nicole Kidman
Republicans like to indict Democrats as anti-corporate zealots.
~ James Surowiecki
I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
~ Vijay Mallya
I'm not a complete idiot that just accuses people of something without having my reasons to believe what it is I'm saying.
~ Paulie Malignaggi
What happens in many of these cases is that, in the absence of evidence, the crime is pinned on a person of low social standing who is known to be in the vicinity of the crime. We have seen this repeatedly.
~ Bill James
In this country you're guilty until proven wealthy.
~ Bill Maher
People do not see you, / They invent you and accuse you.
~ Helene Cixous