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Quotes About Blame

the lonely evening sound of the mothers, saying it is not our fault that we weep so, it is nature's fault that makes us first full, then empty.
~ Edna O'Brien
It is not only their own destinies that each sees as ruled by the other; they even view their own being similarly. Neither seems capable of taking responsibility for personal desires, loves, or hates. Each sees the other as causing his or her own pain. Ironically, they thus each give their partner great power to guilt the other.
~ Edwin H. Friedman
Where everyone is responsible, no one is really responsible.
~ Albert Bandura
La culpa te cierra puertas.
~ Alberto Fuguet
It is not easy to wash off the shame when it has already been glued to a person.
~ Aleksis Kivi
Coloro i quali avevano impugnato così risolutamente, e così a lungo, che ci fosse vicino a loro, tra loro, un germe di male, che poteva, per mezzi naturali, propagarsi e fare una strage; non potendo ormai negare il propagamento di esso, e non volendo attribuirlo a que' mezzi (che sarebbe stato confessare a un tempo un grand'inganno e una gran colpa), erano tanto più disposti a trovarci qualche altra causa, a menar buona qualunque ne venisse messa in campo.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
They know their crime," she said. "They know their shame.
~ Alethea Kontis
As long as you don't criticise individual players in public, admonishing the team is fine, not a problem. We can all share in the blame: the manager, his staff, the players. Expressed properly, criticism can be an acceptance of collective responsibility. Under
~ Alex Ferguson
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
~ Alexander Herzen
A man with a bad character is liable to be blamed for any misdeed which may be done; while a person who is not open to suspicion may commit depredation without challenge.
~ Alexander Hislop
Some praise at morning what they blame at night,But always think the last opinion right.
~ Alexander Pope
Some judge of authors' names, not works, and thenNor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
~ Alexander Pope
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
~ Alexander Pope
Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
~ Alexander Pope
Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
~ Alexander Pope
To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
~ Alexander Pope
Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n in fault;. Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.
~ Alexander Pope
Görmezden gelinecek suç yoktur!
~ Alexandra Lapierre
Anger also prompts self-justifying thoughts that minimize or deny our contribution to the conflict and shift the blame to the other party. That's why we so often foolishly go to war instead of going to God with the problem.
~ Alfred Ells
The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.
~ Kevin Rudd
What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it.
~ Kevin Costner
People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?
~ Marion Barry
Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.
~ Sydney Madwed
Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
~ Douglas Coupland