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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

  Ron Suskind

  Doctors, Views, Ideas

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• My husband is always accusing me of being a context-free individual. He asks something and he has no idea where it came from or what it related to. I have to supply him with way more supplementary information than I ever have to supply my female friends.

  Heidi Julavits

  Husband, Accusing Me, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious sort of spending isn't strictly the province of hip-hop. It's almost like a continuation of the American Dream.

  Simon de Pury

  Dream, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is all too easy for the liberal media to stir up the irrational hatreds of millions of people, who see themselves as less fortunate than others, by repeatedly talking about eh billions of dollars in 'windfall profits' earned by major corporations, by featuring periodic stories on the opulent living of wealthy individuals, or by pointing an accusing finger at 'loopholes' used by 'the rich.'

  Robert Ringer

  Media, Talking, People

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• Accusing somebody of racism is a very effective weapon in Germany. Islamists know this: As soon as you accuse someone of demonizing Islam, then the European side backs down.

  Bassam Tibi

  Racism, Islam, Germany

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!

  Sherman Alexie

  Mean, Ipods, Accusing Me

  "Sherman Alexie: Don’t Call Me Warrior". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 2009.

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• The Iranians are Moslems and the Iraqi are Moslems. Both are certain that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is his prophet and believe it with all their hearts. And yet, at the moment, Iraq doesn't trust Iran worth a damn, and Iran trusts Iraq even less than that. In fact, Iran is convinced that Iraq is in the pay of the Great Satan (that's God-fearing America, in case you've forgotten) and Iraq counters with the accusation that it is Iran who is in the pay of the Great Satan. Neither side is accusing the Godless Soviets of anything, which is a puzzle

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Heart, Iran

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• Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers, they should be looking at the internal sources of employee dissatisfaction rather than trying to cover that up with this legal action.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Trying, Gone, Action

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• God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Evil, Miracle

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 10, sc. 4, 1951.

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• We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.

  Dorothy Day

  New York, Government, Suffering

  "On Pilgrimage". "Catholic Worker", September 1956.

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• Accusing a home school kid of missing out on ‘socialization’ is like accusing a work-at-home entrepreneur of missing out on corporate politics.

  Perry Marshall

  Home, School, Kids

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• And Max, I've put some scraps in a bowl for your dog," Mom said. "It's on the floor, by the back door." The flock and I went still. Uh-oh, I thought. Total stomped up to me, his glare accusing. "A bowl on the floor!" he seethed. "Why don't you just chain me to a stake in the yard and throw me a bone!

  James Patterson

  Mom, Dog, Doors

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• Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

  Nancy Pelosi

  United States, Congress, Cia

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