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Quotes About Accusation

Being labeled as something you aren't can't ruin you. Being accused of something you didn't do can too.
~ Unknown
I wasn't mad until you accused me of being mad... now I'm just pisssssssed.
~ Unknown
Unless they give you a reason to not trust them, don't spend all your time trying to catch someone in a lie, or constantly accuse them of things that you aren't reasonably possitive are true. Because eventually they're going to get sick of being convicted unjustly, & commit the crime they're paying for anyway.
~ Unknown
You have accused me of upsetting order by my free drinks, and I have showed you that there is a more dreadful fermentation in the Sermon on the Mount than in my beer-barrels. Christ thought it in the irresponsibility of His omnipotence.
~ W.B. Yeats
Wow. Ted Cruz falsely suggested Marco Rubio mocked the bible and was just forced to fire his communications director. More dirty tricks.
~ Donald Trump
Let him who is about to accuse God consider the greatness of the God accused.
~ Philip Yancey
Sometimes they accuse her in Latin and she looks at them, baffled by a language that she has only ever heard spoken in church, in the Mass that she loves. How could these very sounds, these familiar beloved tones, so solemn and musical to her, now be the voice of accusation ?
~ Philippa Gregory
I do not know, men of Athens, how my accusers affected you; as for me, I was almost carried away in spite of myself, so persuasively did they speak. And yet, hardly anything of what they said is true.
~ Plato
He thinks that you are a neologian, and he is going to have you up before the court for this.
~ Plato
How you, O Athenians, have been affected by my accusers, I cannot tell; but I know that they almost made me forget who I was—so persuasively did they speak; and yet they have hardly uttered a word of truth.
~ Plato
We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure one's own deception is to accuse others of deceit.
~ R. Scott Bakker
To resent is to brood in inaction, to pass through life acting in a manner indistinguishable from those who bear no grudges. But hatred hails from a wilder, far more violent tribe. Even when you cannot strike out, you strike nonetheless. Inward, if not outward, as if such things have direction. To hate, especially without recourse to vengeance, is to besiege yourself, to starve yourself to the point of eating your own, then to lay wreaths of blame at the feet of the accused.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity for you.
~ Dean Koontz
he wanted to pursue criminal charges
~ Debra Webb
she lambasted him for driving so poorly.
~ Delia Parr
If you're not crazy but people have told the world you are, then all your protests to the contrary just underscore their point.
~ Dennis Lehane
No significant American group hates like the left does. If you differ with them — from global warming, to race relations, to same-sex marriage, to the extent of rape on college campuses — they will humiliate, defame, libel and try to economically crush you.
~ Dennis Prager
The greatest crime of which the Roman Emperors were accused is that they had Christians thrown to the lions; but that does not exceed in horror what the Christians did to one another.
~ Unknown
Your son is a drunkard," she informed him. Then she caught a whiff of Roger's breath. "Following in his father's footsteps, I see," she added coldly.
~ Diana Gabaldon
You've not been sleeping proper," Byrd said accusingly. "I can tell. You've been a-wallowing on your pillow; your hair's a right rat's nest!" "I do apologize, Tom," Grey said politely. "Perhaps I should sleep upright in a chair, in order to make your work easier?" (Haunted Soldier)
~ Diana Gabaldon
met with you." "Captain Randall said you were stealing cattle
~ Diana Gabaldon
It's true!" She whirled toward Jamie, fists clenched against the cloak she still wore. "It's true! It's the Sassenach witch! How could ye do such a thing to me, Jamie Fraser?
~ Diana Gabaldon
No," he repeated, more sharply. "Of course I did not kill Gerald Siverly. What kind of flapdoodle is that?" Grey thought briefly of inquiring whether there was more than one sort of flapdoodle and, if so, what the categories might be, but thought better of it and ignored the question as rhetorical.
~ Diana Gabaldon
you just said that you suspect my husband of wanting to
~ Diana Gabaldon