Quotes About Blame

And I don't blame him. I don't even trust me.

It is difficult to cultivate a healthy relationship in a landscape overgrown with blame, lack of trust, and betrayal

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

You don't want to be comforted, do you?" he asks, sadly. "You'd rather be guilty. You know they made up the idea of original sin not to punish but to console us. When all the incomprehensible shit goes down, we can blame ourselves, it was something we did or didn't do. Without guilt, we are irrelevant. And that is so much worse.

Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.

And remember, it's always her fault. That's your story and you're sticking to it.

If she is clearly right, find fault with her that has nothing to do with the incident, and use that.

Thus the privatization process functions to keep people blaming themselves, rather than the institution, for its failure: Though the institution consistently proves itself unsatisfactory, even rotten, it encourages them to believe that somehow their own case will be different.

Underneath every simple, obvious story about 'human error,' there is a deeper, more complex story about the organization.

Unjust responses to failure are almost never the result of bad performance. They are the result of bad relationships.

forward-looking accountability."2 Accountability that is backward-looking (often the kind in trials or lawsuits) tries to find a scapegoat, to blame and shame an individual for messing up. But accountability is about looking ahead. Not only should accountability acknowledge the mistake and the harm resulting from it, it should lay out the opportunities (and responsibilities!) for making changes so that the probability of such harm happening again goes down.

Saying what people failed to do has no role in understanding 'human error.

The question that drives safety work in a just culture is not who is responsible for failure, rather, it asks what is responsible for things going wrong. What is the set of engineered and organized circumstances that is responsible for putting people in a position where they end up doing things that go wrong?

I'm not to blame, Ramborg, if a man's heart is created in such a fashion that whatever is inscribed on it when it's young and fresh is carved deeper than all the runes that are later etched.

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.

Part of the manager's job is to act as scapegoat, shielding his club's owners from blame.

you are not responsible for the world's ills. You can't carry the blame for others or their future consequences. None of us can. That's the road to self-destruction.

You can't carry the blame for others or their future consequences. None of us can. That's the road to self-destruction.

Maybe, but I'm illustrating that you are not responsible for the world's ills. You can't carry the blame for others or their future consequences. None of us can. That's the road to self-destruction.

her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.

You're so critical. Oh, God, I'd do anything for you to stop blaming me for every little thing that goes wrong. Love me for who I am. Love Shelley for who she is. Stop focusing on the bad stuff because life is just too damn short.

It was natural given such clear teachings that I readily took the blame for the disastrous situation in which I found myself. My understanding of my religion offered me little solace. Indeed, by encouraging self-blame, it deprived me of a sense of justice...of being the injured one.