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  • I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed. -- Foxy Brown
  • You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. -- Moses
  • None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial. -- John Garamendi
  • I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association. -- Herman Cain
  • Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs. -- Dana Rohrabacher
  • Obama not only falsely represented the Republican position - as usual - he shamelessly pretended that he was The One 'fighting so hard to cut middle-class taxes.' Baloney! -- Bob Beauprez
  • I am falsely accused, without proof, of using my position for personal profit. Many who accuse me have lifestyles and spending habits that make them walking proofs of that crime. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
  • I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth. -- Christopher Hampton
  • Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. -- Stephen Jay Gould
  • Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s. -- Camille Paglia
  • Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved. -- Stanley Fish
  • The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb. -- Robert Casey
  • I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone. -- Billy Childish
  • I just - I like the saccharin and the gooeyness of 'Bachelor,' and how just gross and like falsely romantic it is. Whereas, like, the 'Real Housewives' is just raw, and it's just - it's the fights that get me. It's just very uncomfortable for me. -- Ken Marino
  • Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place. -- Lorrie Moore
  • To Kill a Mockingbird' is really two stories. One is a coming-of-age tale told from the point of view of Scout Finch, a girl of about nine, and her slightly older brother, Jem. The second story concerns their father, attorney Atticus Finch, who has been appointed to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, falsely accused of raping a white woman. -- Charles J. Shields
  • I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been pigeonholed a little bit - maybe of my own doing - and in a way where I felt like I was sort of falsely defined. What my music was being called wasn't really the music I was always listening to. -- Kathleen Edwards
  • Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely -- Publilius Syrus
  • Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them. -- Steven Novella
  • Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late. -- Bob Dylan
  • The "end of history" has been proclaimed many times, always falsely. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely. -- Poppy Z. Brite
  • Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation. -- Timothy Keller
  • His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Work on psychological blocks like shame and guilt - they falsely color your reality. -- Deepak Chopra
  • Bye-bye, Elan. P.S., Next time you implicate someone falsely, try to pick a pacifist. -- J.R. Ward
  • You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely. -- Thucydides
  • Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth. -- Thomas Browne
  • We assume, falsely, that how we feel now is how we will feel in the future -- Paulo Coelho
  • what time is it?its is by every star a different time,and each most falsely true ... -- e. e. cummings
  • If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real -- Plutarch
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  • One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning. -- Maimonides
  • Wow. Ted Cruz falsely suggested Marco Rubio mocked the bible and was just forced to fire his communications director. More dirty tricks. -- Donald Trump
  • The agonies of those who are falsely accused are of great concern to the living God, and He acts as their defender. -- Max Anders
  • The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal. -- William J. Clinton
  • I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. 'Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and the dead. -- William Wordsworth
  • ...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord. -- Tacitus
  • Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed. -- Thomas Nagel
  • We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it. -- Seneca the Younger
  • How many ills spring from adultery? First the supreme law that is violated, Nobility oft stain'd with bastardy, Inheritance of land falsely possessed, The husband scorn'd, wife sham'd, and babes unbless'd. -- John Webster
  • The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. (p. 220) -- Steven Pinker
  • One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little. -- Kenneth Koch
  • 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
  • Men forsook God, and made carved images of men. Since therefore an image of man was falsely worshipped as God, God became truly Man, that the falsehood might be done away. -- Cyril of Jerusalem
  • The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised. -- Macklemore
  • It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine they themselves, in their narrow minds and experience, would have done under the circumstances. -- John Henrik Clarke
  • The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps. -- Francis Bacon
  • I have a very thick skin. I take everything that comes and let it bounce right off me because I know the time will come when nobody will be able to speak falsely. -- Prince
  • We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we don. We think we know things we don't know. -- Errol Morris
  • What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity. -- David Hume
  • You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth. -- Christopher Hampton
  • When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results. -- Donald Trump
  • The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war. -- Scott Ritter
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