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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.
I am accused of kissing women?perhaps overeagerly kissing women. And that isthe charge, not drugging, not robbing, kissing!
Kerry Packer— 1995 Replying to charges of sexual misconduct, lobbying, and editing diaries subpoenaed by the Senate Ethics Committee. In the NewYorkTimes,7 Sep.
London, hast thou accused me Of breach of laws, the root of strife? Within whose breast did boil to see, So fervent hot, thy dissolute life, That even the hate of sins that grow Within thy wicked walls so rife, For to break forth did convert so That terror could it not repress.
Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of— 1557 'London, hast thou accused me'.
Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
bernard of clairvaux— As quoted in Is the Father of Jesus the God of Muhammad? : Understanding the Differences between Christianity and Islam (2002) by Timothy George, p. 49
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
al capone— The Bootleggers
During my imprisonment in the Soviet Union, I often heard of an imprisoned Swedish diplomat who had been active in Budapest. The Russian authorities were said to have accused him of espionage for the Germans.
wilhelm mohnke— Quoted in "Raoul Wallenberg: The Mystery Lives on" - Page 198 - by Harvey Rosenfeld - 2005
I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.
paul newman— Quoted in Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein (1988), p. 314
I could be accused of being a wannabe tribesman, of wanting to be a tribal dude, but that is not how I see it. I see it as me doing what they wanted me to do, showing them respect and hanging out with them.
bruce parry— As quoted in "Do you really want to be in our tribe?" in The Telegraph (1 March 2005)
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused."
Edmund Burke— 1794-05-30.
I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company which publishes seven professional economic newsletters), of being ignorant of sociology (although I am trained in sociology and was C. Wright Mills' research assistant at Columbia), of being unable to use statistics (although I earned my living as a professional statistician for five years) and of ignoring political factors (although all my graduate training was in political science).
lloyd demause— Ch. 2, ibid.
As one civil-liberties lawyer, who is concerned about the sometimes vigilante attitude toward accused rapists, puts it: "Some people regard rape as so heinous an offense that they would not even regard innocence as a defense."
alan dershowitz— New Dangers Are Evident in Rape-Case 'Reforms' published 1985-04-08
London! hast thou accused me Of breach of laws? the root of strife! Within whose breast did boil to see, So fervent hot, thy dissolute life.
howard, henry, earl of surrey— "A Satire Against the Citizens of London", line 1
Glenn Beck: Frog Killer ... Glenn Beck Lies About LGF ... Beck portrayed this as if I accused him literally of killing a frog.
charles foster johnson— September 24, 2009 [49]
Toni Morrison is challenged regularly because she is a black author who writes about the real world. She speaks with so much knowledge about black issues she can't be accused of creating these (issues). People find these issues threatening.
judith krug— Referring to people seeking to prevent children in public schools from reading books allegedly containing sexually inappropriate material."Group Targets Black Authors' Books; Toni Morrison's Novel Deemed 'Smut' by Parent; Acclaimed Memoir 'Black Boy' Also is Under Fire" by Valerie Olander, The Detroit News (January 24, 2007)
[I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when I complain of the defect of mine, they do not believe me, and reprove me, as though I accused myself for a fool: not discerning the difference betwixt memory and understanding, which is to make matters still worse for me. But they do me wrong; for experience, rather, daily shows us, on the contrary, that a strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.
Michel de Montaigne— Book I, ch. 9
Just as a vagrant accused of stealing a carrot from a field stands before a comfortably seated judge who keeps up an elegant flow of queries, comments and witticisms while the accused is unable to stammer a word, so truth stands before an intelligence which is concerned with the elegant manipulation of opinions.
Simone Weil— p. 68 (Human Personality (1943))
Specific protection must be granted to human rights defenders and whistleblowers who have in some contexts been accused of being unpatriotic, whereas they perform, in reality, a democratic service to their countries and to the enjoyment of human rights of their compatriots.
alfred de zayas— Alfred de Zayas' Report to the United Nations Human Rights Council [38] UN expert calls for concrete protection to support civil society voices, including ‘whistleblowers’
An accused man should have the benefit of the presumption of integrity which arises from the virtue of a lifetime.
— Lord O'Hagan, Symington v. Symington (1875), L. R. 2 Sc. & D. 428.
In no state can a man be accused of raping his wife. How can any man steal what already belongs to him? It is in the sense of rape as theft of another man's property that Kate Millett writes, "Traditionally rape has been viewed as an offense one male commits against another a matter of abusing his woman."
— Susan Griffin, Ramparts, Volume 10 (September 1971).
Specific protection must be granted to human rights defenders and whistleblowers who have in some contexts been accused of being unpatriotic, whereas they perform, in reality, a democratic service to their countries and to the enjoyment of human rights of their compatriots.
— Alfred de Zayas' Report to the United Nations Human Rights Council [38] UN expert calls for concrete protection to support civil society voices, including ‘whistleblowers’
The only honest answer is that 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.
— Gerald Ford, remarks in the House (April 15, 1970), Congressional Record, vol. 116, p. 11913.
If thou wert the lion, the fox would beguile thee; if thou wert the lamb, the fox would eat thee; if thou wert the fox, the lion would suspect thee, when, peradventure, thou wert accused by the ass...
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, scene iii.
The one who thinks he is obliged to commit sin has attributed the responsibility of his sin towards Allah & has accused Him of cruelty & excess upon His servants.
— Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p.482
Haaj Imad Mughniyah was martyred brutally and now they are launching a campaign against him. Nowadays they are publishing thousands of article in Western and Arab World media in which this great man is accused of having committed a long list of terrorist acts and other deeds, while he is no longer alive to defend himself.
— Ayatollah Rafsanjani, "Happiness expressed on Mughniyah's assassination blot on arrogance's reputation - Rafsanjani". Islamic Republic News Agency. 15 February 2008.
...it is trite that contradictions per se do not lead to the rejection of a witness ’s evidence and what the trier of fact has to take into consideration, are matters such as the nature of the contradictions; their number and importance, and their bearing on other parts of the witness’s evidence. These differences could either be immaterial to the charges the accused is facing or bona fide mistakes made by a witness.
— Nicholas, J, in Case No. 38/2008 In the matter between:The State And Amakali Leevi, Superiorcourts.org , p.5
I am often accused of expressing contempt and despising religious people. I don’t despise religious people, I despise what they stand for. I like, I like to quote the British journalist Johann Hari [?], who said, ‘I have no contempt for you,’ sorry, ‘I have so much respect for you, that I cannot respect your ridiculous ideas.
— Richard Dawkins, in The Hypocrisy of Richard Dawkins - Reasons for God
