Quotes About Blame

Do you think it was my fault that she drank?" my father asked not long ago. It's the assumption of an amateur, someone who stops after his second vodka tonic and quits taking his pain medication before the prescription runs out. It's almost laughable, this insistence on a reason. I think my mother was lonely without her children—her fan club. But I think she drank because she was an alcoholic.

Victimology's all about emotions and finding someone—anyone—else to blame for your situation. And of course, that 'someone' has to've done it out of pure malevolence! After all, you're the victim, the pure and innocent injured party who never did a single thing to deserve what's happened to you.

you should never ascribe to malice what can be put down to incompetence.

Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.

Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.

Quand on ne trouve pas la solution à son malheur, on lui cherche un coupable.

Si tu veux pleurer, pleure; si tu veux espérer, prie, mais, de grâce, ne cherche pas de coupable là où tu ne trouves pas de sens à ta douleur.

When you can't find a remedy for your pain, you look for someone to blame.

Un líder auténtico nos mostrará que hay dos caminos que podemos tomar: admitir nuestros errores y cambiar, u ocultarnos la verdad a nosotros mismos y culpar a los demás

Nunca —y eso Significa Nunca— Culpes a otras Personas o Sucesos Externos.

When two people meant for each other refuse to accept their vocation, they sentence themselves to a life full of hatred and blame and everyone is to blame for their missed opportunity.

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

No one is accountable anymore for anything.

I don't want to be the one accused of ruining the Smurfs.

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

I have made mistakes, but I feel that the people who have done things to me - they should be ashamed.

There is one thing remarkable about women: they never reason about their blameworthy actions,—feeling carries them off their feet; even in their dissimulation there is an element of sincerity; and in women alone crime may exist without baseness, for it often happens that they do not know how it came about that they committed it.

Conscience, my dear fellow, is a stick which every one takes up to beat his neighbor and not for application to his own back.

I, and I only, am to blame for all their sins; I spoiled them. To-day they are as eager for pleasure as they used to be for sugar-plums. When they were little girls I indulged them in every whim. They had a carriage of their own when they were fifteen. They have never been crossed. I am guilty, and not they—but I sinned through love.

The mother who abandoned her child or took her own life leaves a daughter with the most direct access route to anger--she left me--but even the mother who falls ill and dies can be an object of blame.

esa imperiosa necesidad de culpar a los otros, que es patrimonio específico de los corazones inferiores.

echó afuera esa imperiosa necesidad de culpar a los otros, que es patrimonio específico de los corazones inferiores.

We were born to crucify the truth; it is our mission in life, and we must not be blamed when we fulfill our destiny.