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A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.
Charles I— 1636 Letter to Lord Wentworth, 3 Sep.
The invasion of Iraq will surely go down in history as one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a war in which a band of rich nations, armed with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world several times over, rounded on a poor nation, falsely accused it of having nuclear weapons, used the United Nations to force it to disarm, then invaded it, occupied it, and are now in the process of selling it.
Arundhati Roy— From a speech accepting the Sydney Peace Prize, November 07, 2004 [7]
It's almost impossible to say anything against Islam in this country, because you are accused of being racist or Islamophobic.
Richard Dawkins— 2008 comment quoted in "Fury over Richard Dawkins's burka jibe as atheist tells of his 'visceral revulsion' at Muslim dress", Daily Mail (10 August 2010)
Flight, or an escape from arrest for felony, is an acknowledgment of guilt . . . every man, who is accused, is bound to submit himself to the judgment of the law; and, whether it be a trespass, or whether it be a felony with which he is charged, it may, with truth, be said of him who shrinks from trial facinus fatetur qui judicium fugit.
— Day, J., Johnson's Case (1805), 29 How. St. Tr. 192.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, will be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
— 1844 Judgement in O'Connell v The Queen, 4 Sep.
Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.
— 1776 Remark, May. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.
To be accused of ignoring my roots is pig ignorant. Collins's racist comment has focused my mind on the fight and I will beat him.
steve collins— Chris Eubank[3]
Men trade unionists are accused of sex privilege and prejudice ... A belief in the divine right of every man to his job is not peculiar to kings and capitalists, and men in organised trades are not disposed to share these advantages with a host of women competitors.
— Women in Trade Unions (1920)
Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy and consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.
w. e. b. dubois— Ch. IX: Of the Sons of Master and Man
Der Sieger wird immer der Richter und der Besiegte stets der Angeklagte sein. The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.
hermann göring— Pg. 4 (1995 edition); also quoted in Nuremberg: A Personal Record of the Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals in 1945—46(1978) by A. Neave, p.74; original German, as quoted in Der Nürnberger Prozess (1958) by Joe J. Heydecker and Johannes Leeb, p.103
Judging itself brings the pain of being judged. The wicked judge mistakes this for another crime of the accused and lengthens his sentence.
james richardson— #441 (Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001))
I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.
mark tobey— Exhibition catalogue, Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1951; as quoted in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 46
When the film premiered at Cannes 2003, Lars von Trier was accused of not portraying Americans accurately, but how many movies do? Anything by David Spade come to mind? Von Trier could justifiably make a fantasy about America, even an anti-American fantasy, and produce a good film, but here he approaches the ideological subtlety of a raving prophet on a street corner.
roger ebert— Review of Dogville (9 April 2004)
In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man taking the rap despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that ‘learned subservience.’
warren farrell— p. 243. (Part III: Government as substitute husband)
An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history; conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office.
jerry ford— Remarks in the US House of Representatives in an effort to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (15 April 1970); recorded in the Congressional Record, vol. 116, p. 11913.
It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good.
pythagoras— "Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus" (1904)
There have been people ever since I've had any kind of position in the world who have accused me of being ruler of the world. I have to say that I think for the large part, I would have to decide to describe them as crack pots. It makes no sense whatsoever, and isn't true, and won't be true, and to raise it as a serious issue seems to me to be irresponsible.
David Rockefeller— In an interview with Benjamin Fulford (13 November 2007)
Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain who appears to possess the courage and sagacity necessary for the achievement of supremacy. Even in religion this impulse appears. Nietzsche accused Christianity of inculcating a slave-morality, but ultimate triumph was always the goal. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. "
bertrand russell— Ch. 2: Leaders and Followers.
I was…attacked for being a pasticheur , chided for composing “simple” music, blamed for deserting “modernism,” accused of renouncing my “true Russian heritage.” People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried “sacrilege”: “The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone.” To them all my answer was and is the same: You “respect,” but I love.
igor stravinsky— Expositions and Developments (1959), pp. 113-114
Erhard Seminars Training, more commonly known as est, was begun in 1971 by Werner Erhard. While not a church or religion, est is included here because it has often been accused of being a cult.
— James R. Lewis (2001). The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions. Prometheus Books. p. 306. ISBN 1573928887.
People of goodwill who support the Palestinians resent being falsely accused of being anti-Semites.
— "In Search of Clarity". 'Catalyst'. March 17, 2006.. Retrieved on January 9, 2006.
It is the pride of our laws to labour more for the acquittal than the conviction of the accused, however black the allegations of offence.
— George, B., Redmond's Case (1803), 28 How. St. Tr. 1313.
It is necessary to the administration of justice that every person who is accused of a crime should have an opportunity of being heard in his defence against the charge of which he is accused.
— Lord Kenyon, C.J., The King v. Justices of Surrey (1794), 6 T. R. 78.
Erhard Seminars Training, more commonly known as est, was begun in 1971 by Werner Erhard. While not a church or religion, est is included here because it has often been accused of being a cult.
— James R. Lewis (2001). The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions. Prometheus Books. p. 306. ISBN 1573928887.
We've been accused of pressuring people in terms of our, quote, 'sales,' and we're out to avoid any of that.
— Harry Rosenberg, CEO of Landmark Worldwide, and brother of Werner Erhard, quoted in — Vanessa Grigoriadis (July 9, 2001). "Pay Money, Be Happy - For thousands of new yorkers, happiness is a $375, three-day self-help Seminar. Welcome to EST: The Next Generation". New York Magazine. Retrieved on October 6, 2013.
Can anyone be proved innocent , if it be enough to have accused him?
— Julian, at the trial of Numerius, governor of Gallia Narbonensis, who was accused of embezzlement. Numerius had successfully defended himself against the prosecutor Delphidius, who in his exasperation, declared whether anyone could be found guilty if they only denied the charges, which provoked Julian's response. As quoted in Book XVIII of Ammianus's History.
Although the Protestant Church is accused of much disastrous bigotry, one claim to immortal fame must be granted it: by permitting freedom of inquiry in the Christian faith and by liberating the minds of men from the yoke of authority, it enabled freedom of inquiry in general to take root in Germany, and made it possible for science to develop independently. German philosophy, though it now puts itself on an equal basis with the Protestant Church or even above it, is nonetheless only its daughter; as such it always owes the mother a forbearing reverence.
— Heinrich Heine, “The Romantic School,” The Romantic School and Other Essays, J. Hermand, ed. (1985), P. 24
Never before in our history has America asked so much over such a sustained period of an all-volunteer force. So I can say without fear of contradiction or being accused of exaggeration, the 9/11 generation ranks among the greatest our nation has ever produced, and it was born it was born it was born right here on 9/11.
— George W. Bush, Obama: America does not give in to fear. msnbc.com (September 11, 2011). Retrieved on September 11, 2011.
As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of view, it's a rather wasted argument because, if we regard areas of information as being elite and therefore somehow not usable, it means our center ground of activity becomes very, very impoverished .
— Peter Greenaway, in Peter Greenaway: Interviews, p.78
