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Quotes About Blame

Should Hillary Clinton run for president, voters who ignore the difference between the image she seeks to project and the reality will have only themselves to blame if her presidency turns into a disaster.
~ Ronald Kessler
Trump's voters loathe Jeb Bush because their lives are falling apart, and they blame people like him.
~ J. D. Vance
It's better to choose the culprits than to seek them out.
~ Marcel Pagnol
Serbia is blamed in advance for everything.
~ Ivica Dacic
When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.
~ Shepard Smith
I'm usually the bad guy. That's how it always seems to be.
~ Ryan Ross
There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
~ Manute Bol
It is so much easier to find fault, to blame, to believe that what is needed is a change on the outside, an escape from the forces that are holding you back, preventing you from growing
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience. Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger. It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger. It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
To change the culture leaders must make it clear that if a team member does make a medication error, it's a process problem, not a people problem. Our job as managers and leaders is to redesign the process that delivered the defect. The culture changes when the leaders focus on the process and quit blaming the people.
~ Jon Miller
We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are psychopaths . And psychopaths are to blame for this brutal, mis-shapen society.
~ Jon Ronson
You're standing on an escalator and you're watching the people go past on the opposite escalator. If you could climb inside their brains you would see we aren't all the same. We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are psychopaths. And psychopaths are to blame for this brutal, misshapen society. They're the rocks thrown into the still pond.
~ Jon Ronson
He blamed her both for liking his mother and for
~ Jonathan Franzen
It was so easy to blame the mother. Life a miserable contradiction, endless desire but limited supplies, your birth just a ticket to your death: why not blame the person who'd stuck you with a life? OK, maybe it was unfair. But your mother could always blame her own mother, who herself could blame the mother, and so on back to the Garden. People had been blaming the mother forever, and most of them, Andreas was pretty sure, had mothers less blameworthy than his.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Keep your focus and theirs not on checking tasks off of lists, but on finding root causes. Hold them accountable for personal behavior; don't let them indulge in excuses or blame the system. Show them how taking ownership of their work and taking ownership of their life are exactly the same thing.
~ Jonathan Raymond
In an age of fear, moderation is hard to find and harder to sustain. Who wants to listen to a nuanced argument, when what we want is someone to relieve us from the burden of thought and convince us that we were right all along? So people mock. They blame. They caricature. They demonise. In an age of anxiety, few can hear the still small voice that the Bible tells us is the voice of God.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Despite the near-constant regret he felt about being himself, he never confused himself for the problem. The problem was the world. It was the world that didn't fit. But how much happiness has ever resulted from correcting the record on the culpability of the world?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Nuestra cobardía y nuestra desidia tienen la culpa de que el mañana y el ayer sean iguales
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Of all the parts of your body, be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty. A pointed finger is a victim's logo.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, and Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself. That's the helpful thing about the Indian idea of karma. Your fate is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
~ Joseph Campbell
In retrospect, though many were guilty, none was innocent.
~ A.J.P. Taylor
It is always tempting when you have political discontent in your own country to say it is the fault of some other country and not of your own government.
~ A.J.P. Taylor
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
~ Aaron Allston