Allegations Quotes - Page 2

• Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.

  Georg Brandes

  Punishment, Medicine, Guilt

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.14, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any talk about allegations of war crimes. Those are the kind of thing that lead to a great deal of fear and uncertainty.

  Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

  War, Rights, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The idea that speaking at all on the topic, demanding public space in which to have that debate, is itself an act of complicity with violence, and violence against Israelis, understood as synonymous with Jews, and so violence against Jews, clearly stops the speech with an unspeakable allegation.

  Judith Butler

  Ideas, Space, Speech

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• If somebody comes up and says, "[Barack] Obama was born in Kenya," the story becomes, "Will Obama succeed in refuting this charge and then can we make these villains making the charge look like reprobates?" No examination of the allegation or examination of the issues.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Issues, Looks, Kenya

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed the public sphere of influence.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Sphere Of Influence, Spheres

  "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the allegation that truth is a gift. To have to receive offends those who have determined to take.

  Louis Mackey

  Historical, Principles, Determined

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• How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.

  Tammy Bruce

  Character, Political, Battle

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• There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Laughter, Heart, Men

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• Fascism allegation [to Donald Trump] is not coming from the left. This is coming from the right. It`s coming from inside the Republican Party and from within mainstream conservative thought.

  Rachel Maddow

  Party, Conservative, Republican

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• If I talk about coal, people will start equating my statements with a political angle. This is not a platform for politics, I'm not making any allegations on anyone.

  Narendra Modi

  People, Political, Coal

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• [A 2005 response to doping allegations] Unfortunately, the witch hunt continues and tomorrow's article is nothing short of tabloid journalism. The paper even admits in its own article that the science in question here is faulty and that I have no way to defend myself. They state: 'There will therefore be no counter-exam nor regulatory prosecutions, in a strict sense, since defendant's rights cannot be respected.' I will simply restate what I have said many times: I have never taken performance enhancing drugs.

  Lance Armstrong

  Taken, Rights, Drug

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• A federal grand jury is investigating allegations that David Copperfield raped, assaulted and threatened a woman he took to his private island in the Bahamas in July. What happened to the good old days when a guy would just saw you in half?

  Chelsea Handler

  Islands, July, Guy

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• Judging by their positions at the time, rather than their post hoc allegations, Democrats adored the Soviet Union. Congressional Democrats repeatedly opposed funding anti-Communist rebels, they opposed Reagan's military build-up, they opposed building a shield to protect America from incoming missiles, they opposed putting missiles in Europe. As a rule, Democrats opposed anything opposed by their cherished Soviet Union.

  Ann Coulter

  Military, Europe, America

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• There are allegations actually that he's [Vladimir Putin] associated with real gangsters in the past and that he runs his top circle sort of like a mafia family. But, you know, what is clear is that he seems to prize loyalty above all. He deeply resents anything that he sees as a betrayal.

  Corey Flintoff

  Loyalty, Running, Betrayal

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  America, Evil, Empires

  Dinesh D'Souza (2014). “America: Imagine a World without Her”, p.101, Regnery Publishing

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• This [British] dossier is still considered to be mostly uncorroborated but it`s overall allegation is that the Trump folks knew, the [Donald] Trump folks knew about the Russian campaign to interfere in our election, they supported it, they cooperated with it, and in exchange, they made promises to the Russians.

  Rachel Maddow

  Promise, Campaigns, Election

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.

  Jesse Jackson

  Liberty, Libertarian, Deny

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• In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet world, instead of people running for the exit signs, they just push the button on their computer.

  Jeffrey Skilling

  Running, Business, Yelling

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• I did answer all of the questions put to me today, ... Nothing in my testimony in any way contradicted the strong denials that the president has made to these allegations, and since I have been asked to return and answer some additional questions, I think that it's best that I not answer any questions out here and reserve that to the grand jury.

  John Podesta

  Strong, Thinking, President

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• Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that Israel is committing war crimes should be so good as to do so with its own resources and not with civilian national service volunteers and state funds.

  Uri Orbach

  Military, War, Israel

  "Israel bans national service with rights group B'Tselem in Gaza row" by Orlando Crowcroft, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2014.

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• The problem is, is the White House and this administration have created a war against police officers in this country, with their allegations and false assertions that there's widespread and pervasive racism in the United States of America that lives in the heart and minds of the men and women in blue. This is a false narrative. It is dangerous. It is reckless. It has resulted in the loss of lives. They are not being held accountable.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Country, War, Heart

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I do not have a child and all allegations saying so are false.

  Janet Jackson

  Children, Lying

  "Janet Jackson Sunbathing Video Hits Internet". www.foxnews.com. October 28, 2005.

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• We have had some bad incidents and there continue to be allegations of others which will be investigated; but overwhelmingly American forces there, putting their lives on the line every day, protecting Iraqis, helping to liberate them, that is appreciated by the Iraqi people and by the Prime Minister.

  Condoleezza Rice

  People, Lines, Helping

  "Transcript: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. June 05, 2006.

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• After a long investigation the SEC has fined Halliburton $7.5 million for issuing fraudulent statements exaggerating their profits in 1998 and 1999 during which their CEO was - oh who was it? Oh that's right. ... Cheney himself has not been implicated in the scandal and according to Cheney's lawyer there is no allegation whatsoever that he acted in any way other than in the best interests of the company and its shareholders. And you know what? It's still true today.

  Jon Stewart

  Long, Scandal, Today

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• Maria Shriver is credited with helping Arnold win by standing by him despite allegations of groping. She had to stand by him cause Arnold had a vice grip on her left ass cheek.

  Craig Kilborn

  Winning, Vices, Causes

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