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Quotes About Blame

It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president.
~ Nicholas Kristof
Any time something goes wrong, Republicans pick on women and minorities.
~ Marcia Fudge
There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and blame it on anything but human activity. They are like those who, having been diagnosed with diabetes, eat donuts for breakfast. There's not much to do about them.
~ Michael Specter
What hurts the GOP is when we have leaders placing the blame on other leaders within the party.
~ Mercedes Schlapp
We need to organise unapologetically anti-racist campaigns in our communities, ones that emphasise the fact that the blame for social ills lies with the powerful.
~ Owen Jones
The guilt of newborns is immense.
~ Georg Trakl
Lots of special interests play the immigrant blame game every day because they like things the way they are and don't see a need for change.
~ Luis Gutierrez
Sometimes when something doesn't go the way it should go, everyone blames the concept. Sometimes we screw up the way we implement it.
~ Charlie Baker
I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
~ MS Dhoni
Chaque fois que nous nous sommes revus au cours des années, j'ai été tentée pendant les premières minutes de retomber amoureuse. Comment avons-nous réussi à ne jamais être heureux ensemble ? De qui est-ce la faute ? [...] tu ne m'as jamais livré la moindre clé pour ta précieuse personne... ou bien je n'ai jamais su m'en servir.
~ Benoîte Groult
You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.
~ Bernard Goldberg
I took all the blame. I admitted mistakes I hadn't made, intentions I'd never had. Whenever she turned cold and hard, I begged her to be good to me again, to forgive me and love me. Sometimes I had the feeling that she hurt herself when she turned cold and rigid. As if what she was yearning for was the warmth of my apologies, protestations, and entreaties. Sometimes I thought she just bullied me. But either way, I had no choice.
~ Bernhard Schlink
Those who want to blame all of Enron's woes on the greedy former CFO claim that Enron was a good business brought down by Andy Fastow. But that was never true. Ultimately, Enron was a bad business that was, for a time, propped up by Andy Fastow.
~ Bethany McLean
Often it is the person who is being abused who is presented as the identified patient (the one with the problem). Because emotional abuse causes a person to doubt [their] perceptions, and to blame [themselves] for all the problems in the relationship, the abused party often takes on the role of the identified patient quite willingly. The abuser not only goes unrecognized but can also feel bolstered by the counseling experience as [their] perceptions are validated (..).
~ Beverly Engel
if something goes wrong in his environment, a man tends to look outside himself first for the cause of the problem. According to research, this tendency is based partly on the male biological tendency to take action (versus introspection) and partly on the male ego, which encourages him to blame others and not take responsibility for his actions. Conversely, if something goes wrong in her environment, a woman will tend to look inside herself for the cause of the problem.
~ Beverly Engel
I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.
~ Beverly Sills
The blame lies with anyone who confuses protection with power.
~ Bharati Mukherjee
I remember thinking: if the day becomes more violent, who do you blame? The English, whose behaviour on the square could be said to have been so provocative that they deserved whatever they got? The Italians, whose welcome consisted in inflicting injuries upon their visitors? Or can you place some of the blame on these men with their television equipment and their cameras, whose misrepresentative images served only to reinforce what everyone had come to expect.
~ Bill Buford
To allow the situation to get caught up in "They misled me" or "I was lied to" or "They did the wrong thing and I'm doing the right thing" had the effect of turning it toxic.
~ Bill Carter
We take too much credit for our effect on the world, whining about our misery and guilt, what others have done or not done to us.
~ Bill Holm
Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse.
~ Bill Watterson
Isn't there a statute of limitation on playing the poor abused victim?
~ Bill Willingham
He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.
~ Akiva ben Joseph
When you go 18 games unbeaten people will say 'wow he's really good' but when you make mistakes they will point the finger at the back four.
~ Dejan Lovren