Quotes About Blame

You've got to take responsibility for your actions.

What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible.

I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.

I definitely feel like I'm the scapegoat for a lot of The Process issues.

During my first season at Manchester, the team was not performing, and I was the scapegoat.

There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.

Golf's weird because it's individual, and there's nobody to blame but yourself, but then, golfers also have this it's-everybody-else's-fault thing where you don't take ownership.

I was the person, I think, who first said the evening of September 11 that we shouldn't hold this against the Arab community, the Muslim community. We should focus on the individuals and that groups that were involved and not participate in group blame.

If you start to pass blame or responsibility on to others, that's when I'm going to start to get really angry.

I find it very frustrating how much passing the buck there is in the criminal justice system when it comes to taking responsibility for outcomes.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.

Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.

It's a girls own fault if she is bored.

But the problem is that the fundamental structure of scapegoating is not broken in the acceptance of the latest "other." If the underlying scapegoat mechanism is not decommissioned, then new "others" will always arise to protect the group from its own internal conflicts. For

ADOLESCENTES EMOCIONALES Tienden a estar siempre a la defensiva. Son amenazados y alarmados por las críticas. Mantienen una puntuación de lo que dan para después pedir algo a cambio. Tratan mal los conflictos, generalmente culpan, apaciguan, van con una tercera persona, hacen mala cara o ignoran el tema por completo. Se preocupan por ellos mismos. Tienen dificultad para escuchar verdaderamente el dolor, las desilusiones o necesidades de otra persona. Son críticos y sentenciosos.

If a ferret bites you it is nearly always your own fault.

Added to my distress was the realization that many of the "independent" investigative reports clearly laid the blame for the abuses at the feet of senior officers

When the more lurid popular newspapers in England mentioned men in women's clothing 'nigger-dancing' at Chelsea parties, the 'blame' was laid on the frontline custom of soldiers donning dresses for troop shows.

Je mes suis entendu lui dire que c'était vrai, qu'il était responsable de cela, mais de cela seulement.

According to Schafran, many women, including women judges and jurors, "avoid acknowledging their own vulnerability by blaming the victim. This distancing mechanism operates particularly in non-stranger rape cases, because it is in acknowledging the likelihood of these crimes that women jurors feel most at risk.

most girls and boys continue to experience childhood in father-dominated, father-absent, and/or mother-blaming families.

To subject to scrutiny the mechanisms which render life painful, even untenable, is not to neutralize them; to bring to light contradictions is not to resolve them. But, as skeptical as one might be about the efficacy of the sociological message, we cannot dismiss the effect it can have by allowing sufferers to discover the possible social causes of their suffering and, thus, to be relieved of blame.