Quotes About Blame

A husband can no more blame his wife for the state of their marriage than a thief can blame his hands. As Christ assumed responsibility for things He didn't do, so husbands should be willing to do the same for their wives.

We are not only tempted by wealth, we are tempted to blame wealth.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

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

Life is to blame for everything.

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.

Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.

In 2003, the United States invaded a country that did not threaten us, did not attack us, and did not want war with us, to disarm it of weapons we have since discovered it did not have," wrote Pat Buchanan, placing the blame for the war on the neocons' hijacking of the conservative movement

You can't shroud yourself in self-pity to avoid accountability. I will

Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy.

It was their creed that devils had no place on earth, that evil was not a living creature in the world. There was no one to blame other than oneself.

The more we take responsibility for the energy we bring to the world, the more empowered and productive we become. The more we blame others or external circumstances, the more negative and compromised our energy is likely to be.

We have become a society of people that loves to blame someone else for our condition.

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

O senhor me crê? E foi então que eu acertei com a verdade fiel: que aquela raiva estava em mim, produzida, era minha sem outro dono, como coisa solta e cega. As pessoas não tinham culpa de naquela hora eu estar passeando pensar nelas. Hoje, que enfim eu medito mais nessa agenciação encoberta da vida, fico me indagando: será que é a mesma coisa com a bebedice de amor? Toleima.

When you express feelings, are you stating what is or are you blaming someone? If expressing your feelings generally makes you or other people feel worse—doing harm—try thinking about feelings as teachers, rather than as judges about how the world is treating you.

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.

When you grow as old as I am you can't any longer say this was someone's fault, and that was someone else's. It isn't so clear when you take a long view. Blame seems to lie everywhere. Or nowhere. Who can say where unhappiness begins?

Demagogues direct our frustrations against other groups, blaming those most victimized. For the failures of corporate capitalism, we scapegoat each other.

The past tense is forensic. It's all about blame. The present tense is demonstrative. It's all about values.

The past tense is forensic. It's all about blame. The present tense is demonstrative. It's all about values." I put on his thick German accent to make her laugh. "'But the future tense—that's where the real magic happens. The future tense is deliberative.

Lutie watched her from the front porch. Damn white people, she thought. Damn them. And then—but it isn't that woman's fault. It's your fault. That's right, but the reason Pop came here to live was because he couldn't get a job and we had to have the State children because Jim couldn't get a job. Damn white people, she repeated.

They blame the low-income women for ruining the country because they're staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle-income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.