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Quotes About Blame

James' face reddened. "The vixen must be the very cause
~ Cheryl Bolen
The realization that we are responsible for the mess we are in—and that it isn't 'their' fault—is the best hope India has had in decades.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Com o tempo aprendi que o ciúme é um sentimento para proclamar de peito aberto, no instante mesmo de sua origem. Porque ao nascer, ele é realmente um sentimento cortês, deve ser logo oferecido à mulher como uma rosa. Senão, no instante seguinte ele se fecha em repolho, e dentro dele todo o mal fermenta. O ciúme é então a espécie mais introvertida das invejas, e mordendo-se todo, põe nos outros a culpa de sua feiura
~ Chico Buarque
George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles.
~ Joke from the 1960s
Guilt is a blanket of stones.
~ Terri Guillemets
I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.
~ Joyce Meyer
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
~ Haim Ginott
Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.
~ Hannah Arendt
Where all, or almost all, are guilty, nobody is.
~ Hannah Arendt
que somos nosotros los culpables y que no es culpa nuestra que seamos culpables y que somos culpables por ese mismo hecho y que estamos hartos con ello lo sabemos
~ Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Bu stresin alt?nda ezilenler için ak?l rahats?zl???na s???nmaktan ba?ka çare gözükmüyordu ki, zaman?n ?artlar? ile bu fanatik dincili?e döndü. Kara Ölüm'ün ilk günlerinde toplu sapk?nl?k, kendini ?ehir ?ehir dola?an binlerce k?rbaçç? tarikatlarda gösterdi. Sonra salg?n?n yay?lmas?ndan Yahudiler sorumlu tutuldu.
~ Hans Zinsser
If we want to be able to pick up the pieces of our lives and go on living, we have to get over the irrational feeling that every misfortune is our fault, the direct result of our mistakes or misbehavior. We are really not that powerful. Not everything that happens in the world is our doin
~ Harold S. Kushner
The idea that God gives people what they deserve, that our misdeeds cause our misfortune, is a neat and attractive solution to the problem of evil at several levels, but it has a number of serious limitations. As we have seen, it teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt even where there is no basis for guilt. It makes people hate God, even as it makes them hate themselves. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts.
~ Harold S. Kushner
A sense of our inadequacies and failings, a recognition that we could be better people than we usually are, is one of the forces for moral growth and improvement in our society. An appropriate sense of guilt makes people try to be better. But an excessive sense of guilt, a tendency to blame ourselves for things which are clearly not our fault, robs us of our self-esteem and perhaps of our capacity to grow and to act.
~ Harold S. Kushner
The wayward morality of the country's "flaming youth" was blamed, at least in part, on their easy access to enclosed automobiles, which one outraged critic described as "bordellos on wheels.
~ Harold Schechter
Indeed, anyone inclined to blame psychopathic violence on a killer's favorite books or movies must deal with the discomfiting fact that a significant number of serial murderers have been devoted students of the Bible.
~ Harold Schechter
But who, sir, makes the trader? Who is most to blame? The enlightened, cultivated, intelligent man, who supports the system of which the trader is the inevitable result, or the poor trader himself? You make the public statement that calls for his trade, that debauches and depraves him, till he feels no shame in it; and in what are you better than he?
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Kavga etmek ve suçlamak kimi zaman, bir yöne ya da diÄŸerine doÄŸru ad?m atmaya haz?r olmad???m?z zamanlarda, hem statükoyu korumak hem de statükoya baÅŸkald?rmak amac?yla kulland???m?z bir yoldur.
~ Harriet Lerner
The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Wie het gedaan heeft, heeft het gedaan en niet iemand anders.
~ Harry Mulisch
In the words of Wordsworth, we come into the world "trailing clouds of glory," but the fire is soon extinguished, and we lose sight of the fact that we are whole, spiritual beings. We live impoverished, repetitious, unrewarding lives and blame our partners for our unhappiness.
~ Harville Hendrix
The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
si los mortales estaban sufriendo «más de lo necesario» no era por culpa de los dioses, sino por culpa de «la ceguera de sus propios corazones».
~ Lawrence Freedman
If anything occurs that causes your price to go down, it's a self-inflicted wound.
~ Lawrence L. Steinmetz