Quotes About Accusation

Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.

When you believe you are excusing yourself, you are accusing yourself.

Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers.

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

Men who are loudly charged with repression before they have done anything to substantiate the charge are apt to proceed to substantiate it.

She wanted, out of a kind of mysterious vindictiveness born of despair, to torture us with her torture, to arraign us, the hale and hearty, in the place of God.

They did not know, those innocents who spread such lies, that the accusation of every possible cruelty against the enemy is as much war materiel as are munitions and planes, and that they are systematically taken out of storage at the beginning of every war. War does not permit itself to be coordinated with reason and righteousness. It needs stimulated emotions, enthusiasm for its own cause and hatred for the adversary.

Coward! Liar! Libertine! Who were you with last night? Moll at the mill or Violet at the vicarage? Or Ivy, perhaps, at the ironmongery?

Stop telling the truth about my record!

I didn't do it,' he insisted. 'Then why did you run?' Sabrina asked. 'And send rabbits to eat us! I'm a seven-year-old girl,' Daphne said. 'Do you know how important bunny rabbits are to me?

The only way to prove I didn't do it is to prove who did," I said. "That's the law of innocence.

A man who looks guilty is found guilty.

You don't have to be an interrogator at Abu Ghraib to know that time never favors the suspect.

You are under arrest for murder, attempted murder and general conspiracy to be an asshole. - Harry Bosch

It's not clear what happened. It's not clear who did what to whom. That's the largest category of complaints we see. So far, society's tended to focus on the problems of the victim, not the problems of the accused. But the accused has problems, too. A harassment claim is a weapon, Bob, and there are no good defenses against it. Anybody can use the weapon—and lots of good people have. It's going to continue for a while, I think." Garvin

Elliot was accused of being a "Nazi criminal" engaged in the "torture of dumb [sic] animals.

We're most reactive to the things we secretly accuse ourselves of.

We are most reactive to the things we secretly accuse ourselves of

I'm not calling Mr. DeSantis a racist. I'm simply saying the racists believe he's a racist.

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.

I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.

Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!

You're nothing but a snoop and a tattletale!

A few months earlier, when a state official named Bud Dwyer was similarly accused of corruption, he called a press conference, pulled out a gun and, as cameras rolled, blew his brains out. This led to an excellent local joke.