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Quotes About Accusation

Stan Gibbs claims the story is real." "Does he now?" "Yes." Win rubbed his chin. "Pray tell, why does he not defend himself?" "No clue." "Presumably because he is guilty," Win said. "Man is, above all, selfish. He's into self-preservation. It's instinctive. He does not martyr himself. He cares about one thing above all else: saving his hide.
~ Harlan Coben
As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.
~ Robert Graves
Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
~ Abraham Lincoln
I didn't even do anything." "You did ask her if she killed Petrov. I think your exact words were, 'You whacked him, didn't you? You sadistic bitch.'" "Sadistic heifer. And it was just a question.
~ Shelly Laurenston
La sospecha siempre ronda las mentes culpables.
~ Sheridan Hay
The great irony of the Boudreau story is that the formal judicial system constantly scolded the accused for 'taking the law into their own hands' without ever recognizing that the accused had repeatedly and unsuccessfully tried to persuade the authorities to deal with Phillip. The root causes of the tragedy include a systemic failure of the legal system itself.
~ Silver Donald Cameron
Even the unspeakable tortures to which the accused women were subjected acquire a different meaning when we conceive them as a form of exorcism against their powers.
~ Silvia Federici
When Sagirashvili accused him of propagating anti-Menshevik lies in his Pravda, 'he would grin in a seemingly good-natured way' and explain, in a pre-Orwellian dictum, that a 'lie always has a stronger effect than the truth. The main thing is to
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
twenties, served as his judge in 1937 and even denounced a
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
Am I a Jew? [ . . . ] Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?
~ Simon Webb
But of what avail was the innocence of the accused in days when an indictment was equal to a conviction!
~ Sir Hall Caine
A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.
~ Rumi
From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine.
~ Max Brooks
Adán acusó a Eva. Caín mató a su hermano menor. Abraham mintió con respecto a Sara. Rebeca favoreció a Jacob. Jacob trampeó a Esaú y enseguida dio origen a una manga de rufianes. El libro de Génesis está lleno de desastres familiares.
~ Max Lucado
They've arrested Sebastian! For m-murder! You've g-got to stop them! He d-didn't do it! He can't have done it! He doesn't believe in murder! He's a v-vegetarian!
~ Meg Cabot
With everything else going wrong so far, he was sure the police would try to use his sweat as some sort of proof of guilt.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Julian and his team of copy-writers had noted that the phrase 'Lest we forget' had so far been reserved for fallen soldiers. In minutes they had created a viral post accusing 'crazed trans multi-cultural zealots' of claiming that a dead transsexual was as much an English hero as the fighter pilots who had died during the Battle of Britain. Malika's algorithms then swiftly sent the message to the people most likely to be annoyed by it.
~ Ben Elton
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.
~ Bertrand Russell
The accusation of metaphysics has become in philosophy something like the accusation of being a security risk in the public service. I do not for my part know what is meant by the word 'metaphysics'. The only definition I have found that fits all cases is: 'a philosophical opinion not held by the present author'.
~ Bertrand Russell
Next, he points out that good men are better to live among than bad men, and therefore he cannot be so foolish as to corrupt his fellow-citizens intentionally; but if unintentionally, then Meletus should instruct him, not prosecute him.
~ Bertrand Russell
Don't You have an answer to what these men are testifying against You?" But He kept silent and did not answer anything. Mark 14:60–61
~ Beth Moore
The primary means Satan employs to put volume to his accusing voice is by using no small list of willing humans. We are by nature a merciless, condemning lot. Far more would burn in eternal flames under our judgment than under that of a holy and righteous God. Know the truth so thoroughly and respond to conviction so readily that when accusations come, you can resist the devil, no matter whose voice grants him volume.
~ Beth Moore
The accuser of our brothers has been thrown out: the one who accuses them before our God day and night. Revelation 12:10
~ Beth Moore