Accusation Quotes - Page 7

• I understand it. People are very willing to say things about me, to make accusations about me that are - I don't get upset about them anymore, but they are very regrettable.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Upset, Willing

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've been called a "baby killer" and I've been told I should die and that I'm ruining women's lives. Those accusations hurt for sure - and I pause when such labels are applied to me - but because they come from people I don't necessarily respect, I have an easier time moving beyond them.

  Amy Richards

  Baby, Hurt, Moving

  4 Copy quote

• The candidates unleashing heated words about race, bigotry, and intolerance. Donald Trump chasing the minority vote and hurling a blistering accusation at his opponent.

  Martha Raddatz

  Race, Minorities, Opponents

  Source: abcnews.go.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.

  Anais Nin

  Trials, Scene, Court

  5 Copy quote

• Accusations against gay schoolteachers figure really prominently in liberal news headlines, because they're attention-grabbing and ratings-getting. They last a news cycle and go away and then you never hear about them again.

  Paul Marcarelli

  Gay, Going Away

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.

  Frances Perkins

  Women

  55 Copy quote

• It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified the boast that a man was presumed to be innocent until he was 'found' guilty; but that presumption certainly ceased to have practical application, so soon as the Grand Jury had returned a 'true bill'.

  Edward Jenks

  Men, May, Bills

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. .I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, . and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout . . . "Yes." .I want to know if you can get up . weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done. .I want to know what sustains you . when all else falls away.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Betrayal, Fall, Lakes

  11 Copy quote

• High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusation that a work of kitsch is based not on lack of for or aesthetic merit but on the presence of a particularly provocative emotional content. (The best art, by contrast, eschews emotional content altogether.)

  Robert C. Solomon

  Art, Emotional, Class

  Robert C. Solomon (1970). “Entertaining Ideas: Popular Philosophical Essays, 1970-1990”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.

  August Strindberg

  Husband, Eye, Jealous

  August Strindberg (1967). “A Madman's Defense”, Peter Smith Pub Incorporated

  61 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it usually meant that she was not being taken seriously. She heard it as an accusation — a device ostensibly distinguishing her from ordinary people so as to simultaneously discount her words and deeds while exempting others from moral responsibility to speak and act.

  William Stringfellow

  Memories, Blessed, Taken

  William Stringfellow (2005). “A Simplicity of Faith: My Experience in Mourning”, p.134, Wipf and Stock Publishers

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

  Gunter Grass

  Crush, Art, Passion

  6 Copy quote

• How important are money management and finances in marriage and family affairs? Tremendously. The American Bar Association recently indicated that 89 percent of all divorces could be traced to quarrels and accusations over money. Another study estimated that 75 percent of all divorces result from clashes over finances. Some professional counselors indicated that four out of every five families wrestle with serious money problems.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Divorce, Important, Four

  4 Copy quote

• Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn't give it a second thought. We were involved in a terribly acrimonious breakup, with great enmity between us and a custody battle slowly gathering energy. The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn't even hire a lawyer to defend myself. It was my show business attorney who told me she was bringing the accusation to the police and I would need a criminal lawyer.

  Woody Allen

  Breakup, Children, Self

  "Woody Allen Speaks Out". www.nytimes.com. February 7, 2014.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• And I think anyone would be interested to get to the bottom of accusations related to minors and related to abuse. So, I would challenge the issue of bogus accusations. And I think it's important to recognize the impartiality of the Egyptian judicial system.

  Sameh Shoukry

  Thinking, Challenges, Abuse

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I just think what we ought to do is we ought to stop seizing one moments of tragedy. We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action. But, you know, enough of this seeking every opportunity to demean law enforcement broadly by making the accusation of implicit bias every time tragedy occurs.

  Mike Pence

  Loss, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

  Horace

  Wall, Evil, Done

  6 Copy quote

• On, those ever-changing moods of Moscow! How swiftly they go from black to white, from one extreme to another, from friendship to accusations, from adoration to hatred, from the permissive 'da' to that annihilating 'nyet.' Those eternal swings from a thaw to a freeze, whims that disregard their own rules, norms, and regulations!

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Swings, White, Hatred

  Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Long ago the accusations had begun,
  And suddenly knew by whom it had been judged

  W. H. Auden

  Long Ago, Judgment, Judged

  W. H. Auden, “In Memory Of Sigmund Freud”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The accusation of cultural insensitivity is a weapon.

  Bassam Tibi

  Weapons, Insensitivity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.

  Jane Porter

  Confidence, People, Failing

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.208

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People tend to believe accusations more than denials.

  Mary McMullen

  Believe, People, Denial

  4 Copy quote

• suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Suicide, Defense, Lasts

  4 Copy quote

• It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because it involves too much self-accusation and principally because they have no standards outside of themselves by which to measure their times.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Believe, Men, Self

  31 Copy quote

• Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]

  Margaret Thatcher

  Wells, Response, Reactionaries

  4 Copy quote