Quotes About Blame

Racism defends our greed, frees us from self-control and makes others responsible for our failings. It is an attempt to silence the guilt so we can look in the mirror.

Had-I and But-Known looked back at her with identical icy stares of umbrage and reproof. She belonged to them. How dare she make such a fuss of Roscoe? He owned a perfectly good … well, adequate … um … anyway … Macho belonged to him. And if he hadn't trained Macho correctly, it was his fault

from Indo-China— put in some wild yeast from the air, ferment it and voilà! you've now got Vodka for the Volga, beer for the Brits, Bourbon for Balboa's kids, Joy-juice for the Kickapoos. Pour this into an Inner City and create your Designated Criminal Class purely to blame for everything, or rub it on the Reservations and

Blame keeps us stuck in the past. Responsibility paves the path for a better future.

Blame keeps us stuck in the past. Responsibility paves the path for a better future. Blame

Children who are blamed for their own abuse also have great difficulty trusting their perceptions. "When adults say 'It didn't happen,' or 'You wanted it'—those kinds of comments really eat away at a kid's sense of reality," says psychologist David Frankel. "Cutting grounds you; the pain is real. In that light, self-mutilation can be an effort to avoid a state of disorganization where you don't know what reality is.

The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.

It does seem true that a young woman may sometimes behave in a way that can be called titillating, and that men take such behavior as being directed entirely at them. [...] I've often seen blushing young men with shining eyes behave in the same way, but no one says of them that they want to be raped. If, after taking a few steps forward, they then decide to retreat, no one accuses them of being cunt teasers. In fact, the disappointed woman probably thinks it's all her fault.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

Blame keeps wounds open; only forgiveness heals

We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.

Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.

You shouldn't blame others for the conditions you endure; we each have the freedom to follow which path we desire in life.

...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

Placing effort in denying to assume responsibility is often more of a burden than just actually assuming the responsibility.

F I can't apologize for being wrong Then its just a shame on me I'd be the reason for your pain And you could put the blame on me!

Every man is his own man. You can be dependent but only up to a certain extent. Never blame anyone when things fail because eventually you're your own man and the consequences are part of your actions... self determined or or by another party.

We all have a certain vision of who we want to be. There are times when we put the blame on others for our weaknesses and failures in life. For some reason, no one seems to be happy about who they are now and how their life has turned out to be. But if you come to think of it, you are exactly who you need to be. You just don't realize it yet.

Self-righteousness and self-pity both lead to self-destruction.