Quotes About Blame

Resentment bred shame, and shame in its turn bred more resentment.

He had emerged from that crimson twilight into the common electric glare with a self-consciousness intensified to the pitch of agony. He was utterly miserable, and perhaps (her shining eyes accused him), perhaps it was his own fault.

Em geral, as pessoas só pedem conselhos - dizia - para não segui-los, ou, quando os seguem, só para ter alguém a quem recriminar por havê-los dado.

We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.

You know how they leave their things lying around on the floor." Mma Ramotswe, in spite of her commitment to fairness, had to agree. Men were very untidy, for the most part. They could not help it, she knew, and one could not blame them for it, as neither could they help being men. It was just the way things were.

If everybody is a villain, then nobody is a villain

In general, people only ask for advice that they may not follow it; or, if they should follow it, that they may have somebody to blame for having given it.

As is a rock in the hand of one with evil intentions. It is not the rock that is the problem, but the heart of man.

Gets silly after a while, don't it, hating something because you're mad at something else, you think? (Sylvanus) ——— It's like we went into hibernation after we moved to Hampden. Never did wake up to the place. Think I always blamed it for our having to more there — silly as that sounds. (Addie)

Gets silly after a while, don't it, hating something because you're mad at something else, you think? (Sylvanus) ——— It's like we went into hibernation after we moved to Hampden. Never did wake up to the place. Think I always blamed it for our having to move there — silly as that sounds. (Addie)

Blaming Black mothers, then, is a way of subjugating the Black race as a whole. At the same time, devaluing motherhood is particularly damaging to Black women.

When we blame, we fail to shoulder our part of the burden; we project the responsibility for whatever is wrong onto another, usually to protect ourselves from feeling terribly guilty or anxious. When we blame, we also disempower ourselves – if it's all your fault, then I must be impotent.

The problem is that when you blame someone else for how you feel, you disempower yourself from finding solutions. If this is someone else's fault, only that person can fix it, right? So poor you can't do anything but sit there and moan. On

The problem is that when you blame someone else for how you feel, you disempower yourself from finding solutions.

No one "makes" you feel jealous or insecure, the person who makes you feel that way is you. [...] when you blame someone else for how you feel, you disempower yourself.

The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

A game?' Rob spluttered. 'A bloody game?' He turned to face his father. 'This is your bloody fault! I'm living your bloody karma!

blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

even after he had slipped a knife between your shoulder blades, you would think that this was somehow your fault.

Without gratitude, the prevailing attitudes of life are blame and resentment.

Not the least of them is that while the West is assaulted for everything it has done wrong, it now gets no credit for having got anything right.

Nevertheless for a certain type of person who is intent on finding blame rather than forgiveness in the world, Foucault

The urge to blame is based . . . on the fear of being blamed.

Blaming public Christians for being 'too political' is like blaming Noah's ark for being 'too wet