Quotes About Accusation

Whenever at an accusation blind rage burns up within us, the reason is that some arrow has pierced the joints of our harness. Behind our shining armour of righteous indignation lurks a convicted and only half-repentant sinner ... [and] we may be almost sure some sharp and bitter grain of truth lurks within it, and the wound is best probed.

In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of not giving enough money for their ransom. I wasn't believed.

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.

While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205.

I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are.

Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.

We are both of us torn by the weight of knowing all these people cannot possibly be witches. If we speak in their defense, we become accused. If we say nothing, we condemn them falsely with our silence. What would God have us do?

there's plenty of blame to go around.

We know our son. We know he's not a pedophile like some of these newscasters are saying. That is not true.

This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.

I could only defend myself so much. It was my word against his. There was no evidence, nor was there any proof. My word meant very little.

In short, luck's always to blame.

Give me a few lines written by any man and I will find enough to get him hung" goes the saying attributed to Richelieu, Voltaire, Talleyrand (a vicious censor during the French revolution phase of terror), and a few others.

law: innocent until proven guilty as opposed to guilty until proven innocent

the person who made a false accusation was punished as if he committed the exact crime.

Everyone needs someone to blame.

We are not the enemy," he says. "That's what the enemy always says.

Which means," said Rowan, "that this is your fault." And then he added with a little bit of derision, "Your Excellency.

have you killed me, false thief?

She was sent to the scaffold because she had a sharper tongue and a shrewder mind than her accusers. It is always the case when men hang women.

crime? I was in trouble because a man had said I was not clean there. He was lying. He only said that because he was not clean there and I told him we should shower before we fucked.

Maybe that's why he was so quick to finger Ackbar in the first place

The fault was lying on its' back...