Quotes About Blame

Don Corleone I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room and then I do not forgive. But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today.

If there has to be an autopsy of the sordid past, let's blame the parents. Aren't they the primary suspects, anyway? As the eyewitness, I'll testify to that.

Blaming keeps you in the problem. Taking responsibility for your actions points you in the direction of the solution.

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.

To imagine that we are solely, or even primarily, responsible for the successes and failures of our children is a narcissistic myth.

Guilt sticks like glue.

Excuses are the tools with which incompetents build to themselves great monuments of Nothing.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

Justifying a fault doubles it.

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Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.

But it's a lot easier to blame someone else than accept blame for your own failings.

They will blame me. That is the risk poets take when we exaggerate for the sake of effect, which is what we do. And believe me, there are many who agree with the sentiment.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. —KAHLIL GIBRAN

Children, Maisie believed, could often only see their world in black and white, never shades of gray—which meant the hard-found forgiveness that provides respite from the dark melancholy of blame might never lift from the soul of a wounded child.

This is the greatest evil that grows out of a wrong act. Somebody always remembers it Ã¢â'¬Â¦ in an evil way.

Here is an organization of labour who adopts crooked measures to keep away from paying the law wage, and, in the hope of making larger income, reduces the wages of his workpeople. Such a man is altogether unfitted for prosperity, and when he unearths himself bankrupt, each as regards popularity and riches, he blames circumstances, now not knowing that he's the sole creator of his condition.

But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.

You stop that,' he said, in a voice which he did not recognise. 'You stop that. You stop trying to kill me. It's not my fault I'm white. It's not my fault you're black. It's not my fault he's dead.

But just as a society must have a scapegoat, so hatred must have a symbol.

It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.

It is not permissible that the authors of devastation should be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.

Consider this," he said. "I am a French director who has never seen your country. I have never done you any harm, except, perhaps, historically—I mean, because I am white—but I cannot be blamed for that—" "But I can be," I said, "and I am! I've never understood why, if I have to pay for the history written in the color of my skin, you should get off scot-free!

he's a maggot-eaten fool and we'll be dead because of him.