Quotes About Blame

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

People don't make us angry, how we think makes us angry.

Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.

If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.

The cause of anger lies in our thinking - in thoughts of blame and judgment.

In crisis management, be quick with the facts, slow with the blame.

The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial.

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.

Death - by hanging! - that, at least, I did not deserve. The death part - all right, somebody has to stand for the responsibility. But that - that I did not deserve!

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.

Think of all the squabbles Adam and Eve must have had in the course of their nine hundred years," wrote Martin Luther. "Eve would say, 'You ate the apple,' and Adam would retort, 'You gave it to me.

forgiveness alone can halt the cycle of blame and pain, breaking the chain of ungrace.

Forgiveness breaks the cycle of blame and loosens the stranglehold of guilt. It accomplishes these two things through a remarkable linkage, placing the forgiver on the same side as the party who did the wrong.

would kill them at once, and blame it on Richard. If he found my sons alive, he

Poor man! Is your curiosity so hot for what you've been denied? And you men put the blame on Eve and excuse Adam.

Consider, too, how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.

For it is not because they fear doing unjust deeds, but because they fear suffering them, that those who blame injustice do so.

The institution represented an attempt to shift onto others — specifically, the victims — the burden of guilt, so that they were deprived of even the solace of innocence.

In order to live in victory, you must call the enemy's bluff, pull the curtain back, open up your spiritual eyes, and remain continually aware of the one who's truly behind a lot of the stuff you're always blaming on your circumstances, your upbringing, your boyfriend, or whoever. Even on yourself.

Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things people did to each other every day? They just carried on life and pretended like the evil didn't exist, as long as it was happening out of their direct view.