Quotes About Blame

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Irgendwer muss ja schuld sein.

But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.

I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia.

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.

Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.

I'm just a deeply jealous person. And I want blame everybody else for what I don't have.

It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews.

For the anti-Semite, the problems of the world can invariably be ascribed to the Jews; for the Communist, to the capitalists.

American Jews are behind the world economic crisis that has hit Greece also.

How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life.

nature or nurture' said the professor. 'Whichever way the parents are to blame

Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!

A man was the cause of it. An unarmed man with a weapon.

Ivar Kreuger became the face of the International Match scandal, but he should not have been the only target. Overeager investors, sloppy auditors, and pushover directors also bear much of the blame. Holders of Ivar's securities didn't demand more detailed information about his businesses. Ivar's auditors accepted his word as truth even when facts suggested otherwise. His directors did virtually nothing except cash their annual stipends.

The guy who wrote The Doors of Perception got off way easier, though, especially since the worst band in the history of the world, the Doors, named themselves after it. He has a lot to answer for.

We see God and the devil blaming each other, and cherish the unspeakable belief that both of them are drunk.

We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.

Fatalism relieves the oppressor of all responsibility since the cause of wrong-doing, poverty, and the inevitable can be attributed to God.

Success is relevant to coping with obstacles... But no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do.

there was no such thing as collective guilt. But we Germans have been told for twenty years that we are all guilty. Do you believe that?

Justifying a fault doubles it.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.