Quotes About Blame

It's not your fault. Don't think that. It's just fate.

Blaming others wouldn't do. Only when I began to see the world's ills mirrored in myself did I begin to find an answer; only as I began to address that uncomfortable word, sin, did I see that I was not being handed a load of needless guilt so much as a useful tool for confronting the negative side of human behavior.

So many gentleman admirers," Hi mused. "Must be tough, being a heartbreaker." "Zip it. Unless you wanna see a leg-breaker, too." Hi shook his head. "And such violent thoughts. I blame Bravo.

This is the ultimate triumph of totalitarianism: the victim who seeks blame for himself.

Don't think I'm not holding you responsible for this, either, you witch!" "I think you lefth the B off that word," Jim said.

Unless society came out past Flat Rock Crossroads, kept on past Booker T. High School, hung two rights, a left, turned in on Milk Farm Road and found Roland plowing a tobacco field, jerked him off the tractor, warped him and set him back up there without anybody riding by and noticing, blame can't be laid on society.

Worthless people blame their karma.

I think any time there's a crisis people want to blame someone. I've never been much for the Monday morning quarterbacking.... The media has a fascination with the blame game and instead of looking for what can we do to help now there's a lot of why didn't we do something different?

Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to.

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Living in the box means being convinced that other people and our circumstances are responsible for our feelings and our helplessness to overcome them.

Three aspects of the self betrayer's conduct always go together: accusing others, excusing oneself, and displaying oneself as a victim.

Vivir en una caja implica estar convencido de que son las demás personas y las circunstancias las responsables de nuestros sentimientos y de nuestra incapacidad para superarlos.

Living in the box means being convinced that other people and our circumstances are responsible for our feelings and our helplessness to overcome them. What we can't see when we're in the box is that the way the world appears to us is our projection, and that we are making this projection to justify ourselves in self-betrayal. We cannot see that it's not others' actions but our accusations that result in our feeling offended.

Since men do not know that the conflict occurs inside themselves, they go mad, and one lays the blame on the other… But he does not see the conflict in his own soul, which is however the source of the outer disaster. If you are aggravated against your brother, think that you are aggravated against the brother in you, that is, against what in you is similar to your brother.

Missy was quick to assign blame for her mistakes not to herself but to whoever caused her to lose control.

Our free enterprise system is broken and can't be fixed." The source said Templeton was angry and blamed the state of the economy on "untouchable elites" and "crony capitalists working hand-in-glove with corrupt politicians.

The only conspiracy that exists is the conspiracy of incompetence.

Accept your positive experiences without taking credit and you have humility. Accept your negative experiences without blame and you have serenity.

Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie

According to the ancient Greeks, the god Apollo banished the raven to the constellation Corvus after the bird tried to blame his own misdeeds on Hydra, the water serpent.

Tell me about a failure in your life and tell me why it occurred." Does the applicant say he cannot think of one? If he can describe something he perceives as a failure, does he take responsibility for it or does he blame others (e.g., "I never graduated high school because those damned teachers didn't know how to motivate me")?

Self-criticism and criticizing others are one and the same. In other words, self-blame is part of the same Upper Limit pattern as blaming someone else. Both criticizing yourself and criticizing others are highly addictive and very popular ways of busting up the flow of positive energy.

Once the race for the victim position is under way, each person must find some way to out-victim the other.