Accusing Quotes

• The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Light, Boredom

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• People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.

  Clare Short

  Morning, Accusing Me, People

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• Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Women, Accusing Me, Compass

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.230, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

  Ida B. Wells

  Party, Lynching, Punishment

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• If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.

  Ann Coulter

  Hurt, Hate, Police

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• I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That's like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we're called 'Jews'? Because we come from Judea.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, America, Jerusalem

  Address to the U.N. General Assembly, mfa.gov.il. September 23, 2011.

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• I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment.

  David Limbaugh

  President, Crime, Advocating

  "Unpresidential Plummet". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. September 2, 2010.

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• In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn't slam him. I said, 'Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn't a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.'

  J. C. Watts

  Law, Obama Supporters, Accusing Me

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. August 28, 2012.

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• [Liberals] are always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. ... Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment.

  Ann Coulter

  Speech, Firsts, Fans

  "Coulter Draws Fire for Bashing 9/11 Widows". www.washingtonpost.com. June 9, 2006.

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• Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.

  Walter Kirn

  Way, Honest, Permission

  Walter Kirn (2005). “Mission to America: A Novel”, Random House LLC

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• In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Men, Thinking, World

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. May 03, 2008.

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• There's a misconception about girls accusing people of sexual assault. There's this sense of, Well, she might be lying, she might be telling the truth, it's really a he-said, she-said. But it turns out if you study the cases, something like 97 percent of the cases are actually true. And you think about it common sense - wise: Why would a young girl or a woman bring this attention upon herself? It's nonsensical. It sets up a binary equation where, in fact, if a girl makes that accusation, she's usually not lying about it.

  Jon Shenk

  Girl, Wise, Lying

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• We are not accusing you of being illegal, we are accusing you of being immoral.

  Margaret Hodge

  Illegal, Immoral

  Oral Evidence before the Public Accounts Committee, publications.parliament.uk. November 12, 2012.

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• I am not accusing God of sinning; I am suggesting that he created sin

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Sin, Suggesting, Sinning

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• Sometimes differences arise partly from incomplete information. We are finite. And we should admit that there are cases of uncertainty. But often the differences become exacerbated because of sinful inclinations underneath the surface, which incline us to prefer our own ideas and not to submit to what is less comfortable. We must be cautious about accusing anyone else of sin. We don't know people's hearts. But we must also avoid being naïve about the subtlety of sin and the corrupting effects of sin on the mind - our own minds, not only the mind of the other fellow.

  Vern Poythress

  Heart, Mind, Sometimes

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• When I started going to church, my first memories are of the minister getting up and accusing us of being full of sin, though he didn't say why; then they would pass the collection plate, and I got it in my mind that this had to do with purification of the soul, that we were being invited to buy expiation from our sins. So I gave it all up. It was too nonsensical.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Memories, Soul, Mind

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• You have Donald Trump just making outright fabrications, accusing me of something that is absolutely untrue.

  Hillary Clinton

  Accusing Me, Trump, Fabrication

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right away. That's not my way of doing things; I don't belong to the world of people who do things that way. I insist on this difference as something essential: a whole morality is at stake; the one that concerns the search for truth and the relation to the other.

  Michel Foucault

  Book, Differences, People

  Source: www.nicklewis.org

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• It is not a woman’s duty to disclose that she’s trans to every person she meets. This is not safe for a myriad of reasons. We must shift the burden of coming out from trans women, and accusing them of hiding or lying, and focus on why it is unsafe for women to be trans.

  Janet Mock

  Lying, Focus, Safe

  Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm wondering if the Roger Ailes scandal in which more than 20 women have come forward accusing him of sexual harassment is going to affect that narrative that's directed against Hillary [Clinton] and her husband pertaining to his infidelities.

  Terry Gross

  Husband, Infidelity, Narrative

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Jews who have been guilty of exploiting the black people in America, economically, civically, and otherwise, hide behind - hide their guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of being anti-Semitic, simply because he teaches our people to go into business for ourselves and take over the economic leadership in our own community.

  Malcolm X

  America, People, Community

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• The white people who are guilty of white supremacy are trying to hide their own guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of teaching black supremacy when he tries to uplift the mentality, the social, mental and economic condition of the black people in America.

  Malcolm X

  Uplifting, Teaching, White

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Every day, no matter what is happening around me, I consciously try to discipline my own feelings and my mind about what I have to be grateful for, because by any stretch of the imagination - even during the worst times when people are accusing me of things and doing all that they do - I'm a very lucky person.

  Hillary Clinton

  Grateful, Accusing Me, Discipline

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Fear not a thousand accusing fingers, if you are right.

  Eddie Adams

  Fingers, Fear Not, Thousand

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• Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Fun, Ambition

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