Quotes About Blame

Go apologize because it's your fault because you are the man. If you didn't get this wrong, you will get something else wrong.

So at this moment Judd felt eternal solitude coming upon him. The dignity, the consistency, of the deed had been broken; they were no longer wilful gods, but caught boys squirming to throw blame, and he wanted only to detach himself so he might at least retain his own idea of integrity.

No. In a sacramental confession, the penitent names his offenses because it is a way of taking responsibility for them before God and before man. He says, 'I am a sinner. This is what I have done. I blame no one but myself. I ask to be pardoned and healed. I need a Savior.'

We grow angry at our suffering; we resent and complain and make others pay for our unhappiness.

By the time Gorbachev came to power, alcoholism had reached epidemic proportions. Official studies showed that 70 percent of all crimes were related to alcohol. Drink was blamed for widespread absenteeism at work, a sharp increase in the divorce rate, and a dramatic drop in male life expectancy.

Günümüzde art?k kimse kabahatini kabullenmek istemiyor, herkes kurban görülmek istiyor ve bunu s?kl?kla, en olmayacak ?artlarda dahi ba?ar?yor.

En son kimden "Kabahat bende" laf?n? duyduk? Sartre'?n "?nsan, do?as? ve seçimlerinden tümüyle sorumludur" demesinin üzerinden yüzlerce y?l geçmi? sanki. Bugün tam tersi geçerli. ?nsanlar ne do?alar?ndan ne de seçimlerinden sorumlular.

Blame is like ice-it freezes an issue without changing it.

Popular morality blames victims for going into debt – not only individuals, but also national governments. The trick in this ideological war is to convince debtors to imagine that general prosperity depends on paying bankers and making bondholders rich – a veritable Stockholm Syndrome in which debtors identify with their financial captors.

If meritocracy is an aspiration, those who fall short can always blame the system; but if meritocracy is a fact, those who fall short are invited to blame themselves.

The "less educated are seen as responsible and blameworthy for their situation, even by the less-educated themselves.

acknowledged, was that the world might not care if he was telling the truth. The public was less interested in real justice than in the clean, self-righteous satisfaction of immediate blame. They didn't want the truth. The truth was complicated, messy, required something of them, maybe even an admission of their own fallibility. All the questioning and the listening and the thinking, so exhausting, who had the time? They just needed someone to hang.

She thinks they're just incompetence. But, then, she thinks that most things that go wrong are just incompetence.

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.

The "hypocrite" is the critic who disguises his own failings by focusing attention on the failings of others.

When people hurt us, the best thing to do isn't to ask why they did it but to remind ourselves that it wasn't our fault.

I asked the doc, and he said that when people hurt us, the best thing to do isn't to ask why they did it but to remind ourselves that it wasn't our fault.

They're the ones who screwed everything up. Not me. I didn't ask to be saved

He sent his new press secretary, Sean Spicer—whose personal mantra would shortly become "You can't make this shit up"—to argue his case in a media moment that turned Spicer, quite a buttoned-down political professional, into a national joke, which he seemed destined to never recover from. To boot, the president blamed Spicer for not making the million phantom souls seem real.

As for the looming defeat itself, she shrugged it off: it was Reince Priebus's fault, not hers.

the president always needed someone else to blame; that nothing bad happened to him that was not directly caused by the failure or active malice of someone else.

You really can't do anything about people's lives, I said to myself, neither friendship nor compassion nor the intelligence of the situations is of any use: people manufacture the mechanism of their own misfortune, they wind it right up and the mechanism goes on turning