Quotes About Blame

Let her own shortfalls, and not your vindictive perfectionism, be the quality that throws her to destruction.

Nations and individuals accept national and individual responsibility to take action to solve the problem, or else deny responsibility by self-pity, blaming others, and assuming the role of victim.

Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, the SO-1 reports, the recriminations, Snood and Tamworth's funerals. She missed everything...except the blame. It was waiting for her when she awoke...

C'est la grande faiblesse des hommes de projeter ce qu'ils ont refoulé en eux - sur les autres.

The women were responsible for everything. They were guilty of crimes, real and illusory. They had not thought hard enough, tried hard enough, asked enough of themselves. It was as if the plane had fallen from the sky for the sole reason that they had stopped flapping their arms.

But why should they blame her? They should blame the men who won't let her alone

Rights begin where love ends. Shall we argue over who is the most to blame?

I wish to know, said Claire. God help us, muttered Byron. I wish TO KNOW why all that ails mankind must be the fault of womankind? Women are weak, said Byron. Or perhaps men need to believe it is so, I said.

I knew my mother hoped I would blame myself, but I didn't. I knew now where the blame lay. If there's such a thing as spiritual adultery, my mother was a whore.

Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society's fault.

The story of human nature is a fair romance. Am I to blame if it is not found elsewhere? I am trying to write the history of mankind. If my book is a romance, the fault lies with those who deprave mankind.

I just stood there looking from one distorted face to another, listening to this babble of enraged squabbling as the members of the Walls family gave vent to all their years of hurt and anger, each unloading his or her own accumulated grievances and blaming the others for allowing the most fragile one of us to break into pieces.

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Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

I think it would take a real stretch to think that I caused the problems with the economy.

One of the strongest forms of rhetoric in our society is the rhetoric of blame.

I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies.

When it comes to the assignment of blame, the CIA has by and large been a luckless organization.

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

I think the NBA just, overall, when you need somebody to blame, the first person that you go to is the coach. But at the end of the day, you need the right players that match each other. Not just the best players. Chemistry helps.

we don't work overtime so much to get the work done on time as to shield ourselves from blame when the work inevitably doesn't get done on time.