Quotes About Blame

But I didnt do anything wrong.." Which is stupid of course, things dont happen to people because they deserve them.

than to be mad at the people who deserve it.

There is no reason to blame the Trojans and the well-greaved Achaeans that for such a woman [Helen] they long suffer woes.

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.

Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses against himself.

Strong in the experience of her twenty years, she blamed fate, because, not knowing that the mainspring of happiness is in ourselves, she demanded it of the circumstances of life.

They lost Olivia at Newport Beach. The panic made Alice hyperventilate. You were meant to be watching her, Nick kept saying. As if that were the point. That Alice had made a mistake. Not that Olivia was missing, but that it was Alice's fault.

But the truth was, she felt deeply hurt on his behalf, and somehow responsible, as if she'd messed up.

Aunt Connie killing the Munros is manifestly wrong. It was Alice.

Samantha: That Harper is so up herself. Of course it could have happened at a private school. And Abigail's intentions were so noble! It's just that fourteen-year-old girls are stupid. Poor Madeline. She blamed Nathan and Bonnie, although I don't know if that was fair.

Carol: I blame the Erotic Book Club. But that's just me. Jonathan: There was nothing erotic about the Erotic Book Club, I'll tell you that for free.

At last we had someone to blame for our miseries. Cadres, workers, soldiers, intellectuals, and peasants, people of all different degrees of political awareness.

Wives were always blamed for the death of their spouse, and it was believed that women could leave their sleeping bodies and do deadly deeds, and as a result, women were deeply feared.

At some point this blackmail has got to be stopped, and blackmail is what this is. The media and the Democrats threatening the Republicans: if you don't pass this bill the way we want, we're gonna blame you for the shutdown of the department or the shutdown of the government. That's blackmail.

It strikes me there is some difference between holding a man responsible for an act which he has not done, and holding him responsible for an act that he has done.

Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.

The healing for women is not to be found in the quicksand of blame. The attitude of blame might lock us forever into the roles of passive prisoners, victims who have not assumed responsibility for our own lives.

Heckler lay the blame bluntly at a press conference following the release of the report: "Progress depends more on education and a change in personal behavior than it does on more doctors, more hospitals, or more technology." Within this largely well-meaning report lurked the assumption that Black people, individually and collectively, were irresponsible, careless, uneducated, and making thoughtless choices that led to this health crisis in the first place.

Everything people do that doesn't work has to be somebody else's fault. Next time you know, geezers'll be suing the government for getting old and kids'll be taking their mommies to court because they came out ugly.

You can blame your mother, and she can blame hers. Leastways sooner or later it's the fault of somebody who's dead.

Sometimes things end worse for one side than the other. These 'injured parties' always seem to see themselves as victims of a moral outrage. They never feel simply rejected, but also abused. I've known many women who were great believers in the curative powers of indignation.

Blame confers an awesome power. And it's simplifying, not only to onlookers and victims but to culprits most of all. It imposes order on slag. Blame conveys clear lessons in which others may take comfort: if only she hadn't -- , and by implication makes tragedy avoidable. There may even be a fragile peace to be found in the assumption of total responsibility...