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Quotes About Blame

A shoemaker, in making a pair of shoes, cannot spoil a scrap of leather without having to bear the loss; but in our business we may spoil a man without its costing us a farthing. The blunders are never put down to us, and it is always the fault of the fellow who dies. The best of this profession is, that there is the greatest honesty and discretion among the dead; for you never find them complain of the physician who has killed them.
~ Moliere
The world is only too glad to discover anything to carp at.
~ Moliere
You always feel someone must be to blame when you are cold or miserable or frightened…It may not be so at all – it is just the weather of life – but even if they are to blame…does it matter?
~ Monica Furlong
Don't blame other people for your own mistakes.
~ Morris Gleitzman
God will not punish, or put the blame upon the innocent, nor allow the criminals to go free without paying the price of their evil deeds.
~ Unknown
Self-mastery means turning the critical eye inward to yourself, rather than always identifying the faults of others. After you have accomplished this, you must refrain from blaming any creature; including yourself.
~ Unknown
Some of you only take credit for good results, but run away when misfortunes show up.
~ Unknown
The fact that humanity has been given the power to procreate shows that we are responsible, not to blame God, for our weaknesses or illnesses.
~ Unknown
We have no one to blame except our own ignorance of world matters.
~ Unknown
You cannot keep blaming the rich people for all of your miseries if you are not willing to act in the first place.
~ Unknown
Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his or her anguish and guilt, and too penetrating a question can mean people are not able to face one another the next day.
~ Nadeem Aslam
There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.
~ Nadeem Aslam
The malediction is upon him even if the law does not exact it.
~ Nadine Gordimer
You can't simply blame another." It was lazy and absolved one party of responsibility in a circumstance that both'd had a chance to influence. "I say that as a woman who so long blamed Aegaeon for what I became. But I" — she slapped a hand over her chest — "made choices along the way.
~ Nalini Singh
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on a woman.
~ Nancy Astor
The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.
~ Nancy Astor
When people who are in authority in our lives make a mistake and we are there to help them fix it, that expression of kindness allows them to accept what they did as wrong instead of needing to justify or blame. It endears them to us, and the light of Jesus Christ is clearly seen in us. The next time we give our opinion, we can be sure they will give it greater consideration because we have earned the right to be heard.
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.
~ Nancy Mitford
I know you have been looking for someone to listen to you, to believe you, and no one helped; they all blamed you. You believe you are bad. That's not true!
~ Unknown
My grandmother accused me of hurting my mother. Other relatives accused me of being an ungrateful child. Mom said I was mean and cruel and had hurt her deeply. Still impressionable and my spirits tottering under the load of the pain from the past, I accepted the notion that I was that selfish and ungrateful daughter, careless of my mother's feelings.
~ Unknown
We bastards are not to blame for any of it.
~ Nancy Springer
That those who live narrow lives have only themselves to blame when they find themselves shocked.
~ Naomi Alderman
A robber who steals a knife and cuts himself cannot cry out against the woman who kept it sharp.
~ Naomi Novik
no one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate
~ Napoleon Bonaparte