Quotes About Blame

Anything that lifts responsibility for our actions is addictive, I've found. So

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

Who," coughed Zvonok, "do you think broke your favorite teacup last fall? The one with the cherries on the handle?" "I was careless, Comrade Zvonok. I left the window open and a storm blew through." "Incorrect! I broke it because you left me no cream and no dry biscuits, and when your old boots wore through, you burned them up for heat instead of giving them to me!" "Hear, hear!" the table erupted in approval once more. "Well done, well done!" "I'm surely very sorry--" "So is your teacup.

A body is never so vicious as when it has only itself to blame for its trouble.

But the story is no good without a villain. It can't feel true without a villain. Otherwise, everything would already be as it ought to be, yes? Someone has to be at fault. And if you are the hero, it stands to reason that folk who do not look like you or talk like you or like to eat the same things you like to eat must be the villains. After all, the world is easy and simple, is it not?

Bran felt terribly sorry for his sisters, but it was hardly his fault that the world was so determined to make girls suffer a great deal more than boys. He hadn't built the world. It had nothing to do with him.

Lacking confidence in your ability to change, it's much easier to blame the changed situation—typically, new technologies—and then dig in your heels, raising a bulwark against the new.

2017 study found that the ideology of America as a fair meritocracy led to more self-doubt and behavioral problems among low-income black and brown sixth graders because, as one teacher said, "they blame themselves for problems they can't control.

The common soldiers did not blame him for his excessive grief. They knew him. They knew his flaws. Indeed, I think they loved him all the more because he was flawed, as they were, and did not hide his passionate, blemished nature.

When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.

It is no disaster to be unhappy but how discouraging it must be to know that there is nothing to pin the blame on, outside oneself?

Un fantasma si aggira per l'Italia: l'idea che tutto sia dovuto, che non ci si debba impegnare per ottenere risultati e che la colpa dei nostri problemi sia sempre degli altri. Questo atteggiamento mentale autoassolutorio si traduce quasi naturalmente nell'offesa rispetto ai titolari dei privilegi, veri o presunti.

That is not the case. We do not blame words for being insufficient to express new ideas.

Society doesn't want to look inside it's dark soul. Children always come forward with the truth, whether it's ugly or beautiful. And we've become an ugly society. Our kids are mirroring that and no one wants to take the blame.

You could be born into love or rejection, into want or abundance,although life itself was certainly not to blame. The vital principle did its job when it united egg and sperm; it was people who created the conditions in which life followed its course. And human beings seemed marked by destiny to trample one another, to make life difficult for one another, to kill one another.

la gratitud, según lo creo, es entre las demás virtudes sumamente de alabar y su contraria de maldecir

La salvación de la moral y de la sociedad no se obtienen con vanos y costosos procesos contra los culpables, sino con interminables procesos contra los inocentes

Don Ciccio went away muttering to himself, 'And there's the thanks you get! It's always the same, if they get better then it's Our Lady's mercy, but if they die it's all our fault.

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.

The truth doesn't care what anyone wants. The truth is innocent. You can't blame the truth.

I've always said women make the best agents. Deceit comes naturally to them. It's hardly surprising: If you were born with a little hole half the population could stick its dick into whenever if felt like it you'd learn deceit too. Biology is destiny. You can't blame women.

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.

I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.

Men would support us, we are told, if only we learned how to ask in the right way. It's a subtle and effective way of not only blaming the victim, but making the victim blame herself.