Accusation Quotes

• When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

  Piers Anthony

  Glitter, Sometimes, Guilty

  Piers Anthony (1989). “Bio of an Ogre: The Autobiography of Piers Anthony to Age 50”, Ace Books

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• We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Fear, Writing, Men

  YouTube Chanel "KD"/ "Edward R. Murrow: 'A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy'", www.youtube.com. November 10, 2014.

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• All accusation is of the devil, no matter where it comes from. It is just as dangerous to accuse others as it is to give the accuser room in your own life. The accuser gives no hope. God does not accuse us, but He does give us promptings that bring light and hope.

  Esther Smith

  Light, Giving, Devil

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• Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Honest, Villain

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.269, Oxford University Press

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• As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

  Carol Tavris

  Hysteria, Panic, Moral

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• If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

  Epictetus

  Vices, Speak, Wells

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• Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.

  Isocrates

  Ignorant, Looks, Reputation

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.14, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Men, Fire

  "Pro Roscio Comodeo". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Section 17), circa 76 BC.

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• Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

  George Haven Putnam

  Government, Dungeons, Self Destruction

  George Haven Putnam (2008). “Abraham Lincoln (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.260, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

  Henry Fielding

  Guilt, Ears, Shame

  Henry Fielding (1832). “The History of Amelia”, p.150

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• I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.

  Boris Trajkovski

  Anger, Succeed, Accepting

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• Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.

  George Soros

  Fake People, Smear Campaigns, Tactics

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• All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.

  Paula Abdul

  Lying, Taught, Taking The High Road

  "As the 'American Idol' turns". www.cnn.com. May 24, 2005.

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• A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

  Bill McCollum

  Criminals, Trials, Matter

  "Senate impeachment trial: questions and answers, day two". www.cnn.com. January 23, 1999.

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• One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

  Alan Shearer

  Funny, Soccer, Football

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• The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Names, Lame, Innocent

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.367, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.

  Socrates

  Children, Accusing Me, Years

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• I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

  Robert Emmet

  Calumny Is, Reputation, Should

  Charles Phillips, John Finlay (barrister-at-law.), Robert Emmet (1820). “The Speeches of Charles Phillip: Esquire, Delivered at the Bar and on Various Occasions, in Ireland and England”, p.272

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• If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.

  R. C. Sproul

  Grace, Enemy, Vulnerable

  Twitter post from Nov 22, 2016

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• Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  God, Hype, Temptation

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• Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

  Stephen Covey

  Thinking, Compassion, Issues

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.110, Mango Media Inc.

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• Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.

  Publilius Syrus

  Men, Gains, Fallen

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• I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that 'The Simpsons' is taking jokes from 'Family Guy.' And I can tell you, that ain't the case.

  Matt Groening

  Dad, Family Guy, Thinking

  Interview With Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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• I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

  Ron Paul

  Men, Support, Groups

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• How unutterably sweet is the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows us completely. No talebearer can inform on us; no enemy can make an accusation stick; no forgotten skeleton can come tumbling out of some hidden closet to abash us and expose out past; no unsuspected weakness in our characters can come to light to turn God away from us, since He knew us utterly before we knew him and called us to Himself in the full knowledge of everything that was against us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sweet, Father, Character

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