Quotes About Blame

A likable character isn't one who does nothing wrong.

It is only losers that are prosecuted.

It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?

When you don't win, people have to make up a reason.

At least, I suppose I can't blame Calcifer, since he's an evil demon. But you you Michael-! I don't think I'm evil, Calcifer protested.

You can't blame that genie for hating everyone," she said. "Think how you felt shut in that dungeon.

The only thing better than getting away with doing a crime was to get someone else convicted for having done it.

Yet after a mass shooting by a white supremacist, Omar does not hesitate to call out white supremacy and seek to pin the blame on Trump and his supporters.

Through a process of transference, leftists blame their victims for being and doing what they themselves are and do. In a sick inversion, the real fascists in American politics masquerade as anti-fascists and accuse the real anti-fascists of being fascists.

Katznelson shows how the Nazis were aware of, and excited about, bigotry across the Atlantic that they believed paralleled and reinforced their own bigotry. Even so, notice how just as Whitman blames "America," Katznelson blames "the South." Never does either of them once say, "the Democrats." No fingers of blame ever identify "the progressives." Never do they point to "the Left.

BLAMING THE SOUTH Today's Democrats try to shift blame from themselves by blaming "the South." The South is supposedly responsible for espousing racist views and implementing racist practices. Yet the detractors of the South neglect to point out that after Reconstruction, the Democratic Party was the dominant, almost the sole, political party in the South.

Practitioners of the big lie, like Whitman and Nelson, have a second objective. Incredibly, this is the objective of turning the villains of their story into its heroes. By clearing the Democrats and the progressives of blame, they intend to pave the way for these same Democrats to offer themselves as the solution for racism. As the big lie unfolds, somehow the very people who have poisoned the water reappear dressed as the water commissioner. It's an unbelievable scam.

Yet while lying about the Jews and plotting their destruction, Hitler accuses the Jews of lying and of plotting the destruction of Germany. Hitler employs the big lie even as he disavows its use. He portrays himself as a truth-teller and attributes lying to those he is lying about—the Jews. Could there be a more pathological case of transference, and specifically, of blaming the victim?

In the progressive narrative, America is to blame, and the first offenders were the Founders themselves. The progressive conclusion is that the founding was "defective," setting up the progressive agenda to replace and move away from founding principles, what Obama called the "remaking" of America.

Whenever Omar is urged to condemn ISIS or Al-Qaeda, she evades the subject. Her rationale seems to be that Muslims have no special obligation to denounce terrorism conducted in the name of Islam. Thus, she refuses to denounce Islamic terrorism. For Omar the lesson of 9/11 is not to blame it on Muslims. Muslims as a group shouldn't be held responsible just because, in Omar's words, "some people did something.

Talk about transference. This was my introduction to the Left's political strategy of shifting the blame for racism onto the party that had historically opposed racism in all its forms.

I soon realised I was making a fool of myself...things like that happen when you are in love with the wrong person. Worse things. things you never forgive yourself for... ...I'll blame myself for as long as I live. It's you I love and always will.

Over 50 per cent of all American crime over the last 75 years has been blamed on drugs, because drugs are the single most convenient scapegoat for a society that is unable to blame itself. When it comes to explaining the presence of those drugs themselves, blame is still not placed on American consumers, but on the foreign supplies who grow the stuff. In America, there are no villains - only victims.

Suppose I try to use an everyday thing, but I can't. Who is at fault: me or the thing? We are apt to blame ourselves, especially if others are able to use it. Suppose the fault really lies in the device, so that lots of people have the same problems. Because everyone perceives the fault to be his or her own, nobody wants to admit to having trouble. This creates a conspiracy of silence, where the feelings of guilt and helplessness among people are kept hidden.

When people fail to follow these bizarre, secret rules, and the machine does the wrong thing, its operators are blamed for not understanding the machine, for not following its rigid specifications. With everyday objects, the result is frustration. With complex devices and commercial and industrial processes, the resulting difficulties can lead to accidents, injuries, and even deaths.

You build up expectations of behavior based upon prior experience, and if the items with which you interact fail to live up to expectations, that is a violation of trust, for which you assign blame, which can soon lead to anger.

After all, these systems do not do a very good job of gathering trust. They lose files and they crash, oftentimes for no apparent reason. Moreover, they express no shame, no blame. They don't apologize or say they are sorry. Worse, they appear to blame us, the poor unwitting users. Who is "they"? Why does it matter? We are angered, and appropriately so.