31 Quotes About False Accusations

Many people sit behind bars proclaiming their innocence. These quotes about false accusations take a look at the phenomena of false confessions and the lack of justice being brought to these that make false claims towards the innocent.

“A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.”

“All my life, I have been taught to take the high road, and never to dignify salacious or false accusations. And I have been taught never, never to lie. Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.”

“And false accusations destroy relationships.”

“As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.”

“But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation.”

“But nothing in my previous work had prepared me for the experience of reinvestigating Cleveland. It is worth — given the passage of time — recalling the basic architecture of the Crisis”

“Don’t call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!”

“Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.”

“Feminism is built on believing women’s accounts of sexual use and abuse by men believe victims en masse.”

“Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.”

“Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.”

“He did not speak; merely looked at her with an expression she had seen traces of before but never fully understood until that moment.”

“I doubt not then but innocence shall make false accusation blush, and tyranny tremble at patience.”

“I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.”

“In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.”

“Knowledge of God’s Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.”

“Living in the box means being convinced that other people and our circumstances are responsible for our feelings and our helplessness to overcome them.”

“Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.”

“My belief is that, morally, God and Satan are vaguely on the same page. According to the common understanding of Satan’s origins, holiness must be in his blood: but a corrupted formula.”

“Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction … nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

“Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.”

“One accusation you can’t throw at me is that I’ve always done my best.”

“People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.”

“She may be crazy but at least she isn’t you.”

“Sometimes, this disapproval of how you are managing your pain crosses over to disbelief that you are in as much pain as you say you are.”

“The accusation that we’ve lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.”

“The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”

“There are people who have legitimate concerns about false accusations and the impact that can have on a young person’s life when they have been falsely accused.”

“When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.”

“You can severely reduce your chances of having a false accusation of rape leveled against you if you don’t hire strange women to come to your house and take their clothes off for money.”

“You took a bath without me? I smiled to myself at the accusation in his voice.”

There are various ways you can deal with false allegations and clear your name as innocent.