Vindication-Condemnation

A man is sometimes extolled to the skies for the very thing which occasioned his misfortune. (Anonymous)

Do you want to injure someone's reputation ? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well. (André Siefried)

To accuse requires less eloquence (such is man's nature) than to excuse. (Hobbes)

Power, whether exercised over matter or over man, is partial to simplification. (Eric Hoffer)