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Quotes About Blame

I take all the credit in the world for my own foolishness.
~ Gregory Maguire
Glinda was changed. She knew it herself. She had come to Shiz a vain, silly thing, and she now found herself in a coven of vipers. Maybe it was her own fault.
~ Gregory Maguire
They had both failed, one to realize his dreams of love, the other to fulfill his dreams of power. What was the reason? "Perhaps it's because we didn't steer a straight course," said Frédéric. "That may be true in your case. I, on the other hand, was far too rigid in my line of conduct...I was too logical, and you were too sentimental." Then they blamed chance, circumstances, the times into which they were born.
~ Gustav Flaubert
It was the fault of destiny!
~ Gustave Flaubert
Why was it? Who drove you to it?' She replied, 'It had to be, my dear!' 'Weren't you happy? Is it my fault? I did all I could!' 'Yes, that is true — you are good — you.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Komplexy jsou zpravidla nevÄ›domé a nevÄ›domé vÄ›tÅ¡inou z?stávají. Pak je ?asto projikujeme mimo nás. Projekce je sou?ástí obranných mechanizm?, které naÅ¡e já používá, aby se chránilo pÃ…â"¢ed pocity, které by je mohly naruÅ¡it. Projikuje je tak na druhé a to tak dobÃ…â"¢e, že obvi?ujeme ostatní z nedostatk?, které jsou sou?ástí naÅ¡eho nevÄ›domí.
~ Guy Corneau
When we stop blaming the darkness, or ourselves, for having been walking in it, and decide, instead, to thank the Light for showing us the truth of our actual estate... then we turn the corner in our work to awaken conscience.
~ Guy Finley
They who lose their Hold do so from their own Want of Strength; but desiring to conceal their Weakness, they attribute the Absence of Success to the first Critick that mentions them.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
the real thing behind the way folks feel is simply race prejudice—and I don't say I'm blaming those that hold it.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Once poor people are persuaded that their poverty is their own fault, that whoever has made a lot of money must deserve it and that they too could become rich if they tried hard enough, life becomes easier for the rich.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
the man was incapable of accepting blame, or assuming responsibility, for the mistakes that had been made. Already he was beginning to cover his tracks, to write his own posterity papers. He had started to formulate a defense for himself, a counter-narrative that, in many ways, would appear to be delusional. He would argue that he had known all along that the Chinese were going to intervene en masse. He had seen it coming for many weeks.
~ Hampton Sides
But you're beautiful, and the beautiful should be given whatever they want. Hey, what about the ugly ones? The ugly ones. She poked her tongue out. It's their fault if their ugly. They're to be blamed, not pitied.
~ Hanif Kureishi
and if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.
~ Hannah Arendt
si personne ne peut rendre la justice, c'est que tout le monde est coupable.
~ Hannah Arendt
Nothing could appear, the word "appearance" would make no sense, if recipients of appearances did not exist—living creatures able to acknowledge, recognize, and react to—in flight or desire, approval or disapproval, blame or praise—what is not merely there but appears to them and is meant for their perception.
~ Hannah Arendt
Wo alle schuldig sind, ist es keiner; gegen die Entdeckung der wirklich Schuldigen und Verantwortlichen, die Mißstände abstellen könnten, gibt es keinen besseren Schutz als kollektive Schuldbekenntnisse
~ Hannah Arendt
We blame whoever we can," Matt said. "The CFO"—Sterman's brother-in-law and former best friend—"the COO, the C Choose-Your-Favorite-Two-Letter Combination, the accounting firm, the banks, the board, the lower-level employees. We claim some of them are crooks. We claim some of them made honest mistakes that steamrolled.
~ Harlan Coben
I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
~ Yi So-Yeon
Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.
~ Paul Ryan
Writers displace their anxiety on to the tools of the trade. It's better to say that you haven't got the right pencil than to say you can't write, or to blame your computer for losing your chapter than face up to your feeling that it's better lost.
~ Hilary Mantel
People have looked at all sorts of effects of globalization and blamed trade. But it's lots of things.
~ Suzan DelBene
It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?
~ Yann Martel
No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public.
~ Tony Blair