Quotes About Accusation

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

They've come to overthrow the court, sir!

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

..Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

You accuse me of black marketing, but which of you has not slept with me?

No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.

I am accused of being the enemy of America, and subject to the influence of a foreign country . . . and every act of my administration is tortured, in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to Nero, to a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket.

But now they would believe Hamid was responsible for the death of Mamie. It suited the stories they told themselves about the dark-skinned man, the foreigner, the outsider, the Muslim.

This doesn't prove anything. It's just a bunch of letters that anyone could have written on paper. She'll accuse me of buying a Hungarian dictionary

Under the charge against us the normal rules of evidence are suspended. For us they don't exist.WE are charged not with committing espionage, but with conspiring to commit espionage. Since espionage itself does not have to be proved, no evidence is required that we have done anything. All that is required is evidence that we intended to do something. And what is this evidence? Coincidentally enough under the law the testimony of our so-called accomplice is considered evidence.

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

As for the accusation that he, Roosevelt, belonged to the landlord class, "if you had any conception of the true American spirit you would know that we do not have 'classes' at all on this side of the water.

be apprehensive of delations, which, as a subject, I have always condemned, and, as a prince, will severely punish.

This process of accusation by the Commons at once acquired a name. In Norman French it was ampeschement: it meant embarrassment. Spoken in English it became: impeachment.

the police in the city really knew how to hold human beings trapped in cages, even women like Manman who was accused of having wings of flame.

All of these women were here for the same reason. They were said to have been seen at night rising from the ground like birds on fire. A loved one, a friend, or a neighbor had accused them of causing the death of a child. A few other people agreeing with these stories was all that was needed to have them arrested. And sometimes even killed.

Le racisme est la dévalorisation profitable d'une différence" ou, plus techniquement, "le racisme est la valorisation, généralisée et définitive, de différences réelles ou imaginaires, au profit de l'accusateur et au détriment de sa victime, afin de légitimer une agression".

It's absurd to see people who have spent a lifetime standing against racism, being accused of racism, by racists.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.