Quotes About Blame

No one believes their misfortunes are attributable to any shortcomings of their own; that is why they must find a culprit.

We always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external enemy to bind their followers together. As the man said, for every complex problem there's a simple solution, and it's wrong.

Poichè nessuno pensa che le sue sventure possano essere attribuite a una sua pochezza, ecco che dovrà individuare un colpevole.

traición. Y es que siempre pasa lo mismo, cuando fracasas en algo, buscas siempre alguien a quien acusar de tu incapacidad. Pero qué traición, me decía, es que no sabéis cómo se combate, pues anda que hacer la revolución…

The social theory of conspiracy, Popper says, is a consequence of the end of God as a reference point and of the consequent question, Who is there in his place? This place is now occupied by various men and powerful, sinister groups that can be blamed for having organized the Great Depression and all the evils we suffer.10

Uvek je neophodno pripisati nekome krivicu za sopstvene neuspehe, diktature uvek pronalaze spoljašnjeg neprijatelja da bi njihove vlastite pristalice zbile svoje redove. Kao što je neko ve? rekao, za svaki složeni problem postoji jednostavno rešenje koje je uvek pogrešno.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

All of this might seem diabolical, but the saloon-keeper was in no wise to blame for it. He was in the same plight as the manufacturer who has to adulterate and misrepresent his product. If he does not, some one else will.

Of course it was terrible that men went to war and killed one another; but for that you had to blame nature, not the Budd family.

I told her you were probably here'. 'Thanks,' Tony said. 'Did I mention she thinks her brother's murder is my fault?

The choices we made, the long-forgotten decisions, the painfully unforgettable ones, are the framework of our lives, thought Alicia. All of her choices and decisions had brought her to this moment in bed with Tim. When you looked at life that way, it was hard not to blame yourself for your own unhappiness.

Doctors tended to blame mothers for encouraging their daughters to tight-lace in order to win a rich husband, while mothers often argued that their daughters persisted in the practice despite pleas to stop. Both doctors and members of the general public tended to believe that women's bodies were, by nature, weaker than men's.

Tight corsets were accused of causing birth defects and weak, unhealthy children. It is difficult to interpret these historical accounts, however, since physical and moral injuries are often conflated. The mother becomes a scapegoat for anything bad that happens to her child

People who are in the right often don't know how to behave. They lose their tempers and swear. They act tactlessly and intolerantly. Usually they get blamed for every that goes wrong at home or work. While those who are in the wrong, those who hurt others, always know how to behave. They act calmly, logically and tactfully-and appear to be in the right.

It is as if, when unhappy with the opulent present, we look to the impoverished past to blame our unhappiness on the dead, who faced daunting natural obstacles, rather than the living, who so often don't.

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is responsible for the darkness it creates. the soul in darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

To blame or praise men on account of the result, is almost like praising or blaming figures on account of the sum total. Whatever is to happen, happens; whatever is to blow, blows. The eternal serenity does not suffer from these north winds. Above Revolutions, Truth and Justice reign, as the starry heavens above the tempest.

The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow.

Which of the two was the victim of the other?

imala je hladno srce. Nije to bila njena krivnja, nije joj nedostajalao sposobnosti da voli; jao! nedostajala joj je mogu?nost.

They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?