Quotes About Blame

When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.

A guilty conscience is jealousy's playground.

I curse the heavens for letting the stars fall, I curse myself for not being there to catch them.

The bear would have to be stopped," Grandma agreed. "Stan is just making the distinction that you wouldn't blame the bear the same way you would blame a responsible person.

It is easy to look backward and cast blame on others, but more difficult to gaze ahead and take responsibility for your own decisions and your own future. —GRIFFIN HARKONNEN, final dispatch from Arrakis It

Beware the seeds you sow and the crops you reap. Do not curse God for the punishment you inflict upon yourself. —Orange Catholic Bible

I think that others can drive a creature to naughtiness, always accusing and blaming them. After a while it must make the creature unhappy and drive him...to be naughty, because nobody expects them to be good...

The evil is in humans, the Devil is not to blame

It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

Yet he'd always seen religion's externalization and personification of evil as mankind's shirking of responsibility. It reminded him of a child's excuse to avoid both punishment and blame: He made me do it. It's not my fault. Satan tempted me. Not, Satan is a part of me. I am Satan.

I think that when people get lonely, they try to find someone to blame. But there isn't really anyone to blame. It just takes a long time to find the right person.

What do we really want from religion? Palliatives? Therapy? Comfort? Do we want reassuring fables or an understanding of our actual circumstances? Dismay that the Universe does not conform to our preferences seems childish. You might think that grown-ups would be ashamed to put such thoughts into print. The fashionable way of doing this is not to blame the Universe -- which seems truly pointless -- but rather to blame the means by which we know the Universe, namely science.

I prefer to think of myself as a devout Narcissist. What does that mean? If the sun is shining, I thank God. If it rains, I blame him.

fueled by a mix of fear and self-recrimination. Nest understood. Bennett was an addict, and she viewed everything that happened as being someone else's fault, all the while thinking deep inside that it was really hers.

Don't be so quick to steal away what that sacrifice meant by insisting it was your fault.

I have to do this, Merrit. I trust you to take care with my life, but if I lose it in the attempt, then I will have died trying to save all life and I don't want you to blame yourself. This is worth doing. I'd rather die trying to preserve the value of life than watch it all end because I failed to do what only I can. - Magda Searus

Don't lay a cloak of guilt around my shoulders because others are evil.

Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.

Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn't his fault).

Books've got to have a name on 'em so's everyone knows who's guilty.

When everything goes wrong in our lives, it's natural to look around for someone -or something- to blame.

we construct our boxes through a lifetime of choices. Every time we choose to pull away from and blame another, we necessarily feel justified in doing so, and we start to plaster together a box of self-justification, the walls getting thicker and thicker over time.