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Quotes About Blame

Who is to blame, then, when everyone is innocent? And what is the value of blame at all?
~ Tayari Jones
We like the idea that there's always someone responsible for any given event, because it helps us make sense of the world. We like that so much that sometimes we blame ourselves, just so that there's someone to blame. But not everything is under our control, or even anyone's control.
~ Ted Chiang
There's a joke that I once heard a comedienne tell. It goes like this: "I'm not sure if I'm ready to have children. I asked a friend of mine who has children, 'Suppose I do have kids. What if when they grow up, they blame me for everything that's wrong with their lives?' She laughed and said, 'What do you mean, if?'
~ Ted Chiang
There's a joke that I once heard a comedienne tell. It goes like this: "I'm not sure if I'm ready to have children. I asked a friend of mine who has children, 'Suppose I do have kids. What if when they grow up, they blame me for everything that's wrong with their lives?' She laughed and said, 'What do you mean, if?' " That's my favorite joke.
~ Ted Chiang
Pur non cascando nella trappola d'incolpare Dio, non fece mai quel passo che l'avrebbe portato ad amarlo.
~ Ted Chiang
We like the idea that there's always someone responsible for any given event, because that helps us make sense of the world. We like that so much that sometimes we blame ourselves, just so that there's someone to blame. But not everything is under our control, or even anyone's control.
~ Ted Chiang
Gaming is our cultural bogeyman - we blame it for everything from child obesity to violence to short attention spans. But any explanation that fits every situation ultimately explains nothing.
~ Naomi Alderman
If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
~ Gael Garcia Bernal
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
~ Henry Louis Gates
Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
~ Dixie Lee Ray
There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.
~ Hanna Rosin
The remake of 'Gulaabi Aankhein' went into a bad spin and I'll only hold myself responsible for it. I shouldn't have done it.
~ Amaal Mallik
My brothers always like to believe that my father pampered me and I am spoilt. While it is not true, they felt that way. As for my dad, I could not do anything wrong. So, if I did something wrong, I would put the blame on them, and he would shout at them.
~ Sonakshi Sinha
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.
~ Werner Herzog
People choose bad at first then say we are unlucky .
~ Muhammad Saqib
Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone's misery is their own stupidity and laziness.
~ M.F. Moonzajer
I was thinking of my patients and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate they were in despair.
~ Anais Nin
Placing blame in marriage is like saying, 'Your side of the boat is sinking.'
~ Hank Smith
Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage
~ Emily Giffin
The man who boasts he never made a mistake is often married to the woman who did.
~ Anonymous
Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
You can do anything in the world if you say "Hey man, don't blame me, the devil made me do it. It's an easy way to escape responsibility."
~ Ice Cube
A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.
~ J. Paul Getty
Never underestimate a man's ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes.
~ Rihanna