Quotes About Blame

The keeper made out this was their fault, Archie knew better, and explained the matter to Maurice in the smoking-room with the aid of diagrams.

I loved you, you know... It's not my fault the world is what it is.

We would never consider for a moment paying the team members equally. In the Olympics we usually have some of the world's fastest runners yet have lost some of the relay races because we could not pass the baton without dropping it! We take it for granted that accountability must be individual; there must be someone to praise for victory and someone to blame for defeat, the individual where "the buck stops.

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.

GENNARO …«Chi ha voluto 'a guerra?» «Il popolo» – diceno 'e prufessure. «Ma chi l'ha dichiarata?» «'E prufessure» – dice 'o popolo. Si 'a guerra se perde l'ha perduta 'o popolo; e si se vince, l'hanno vinciuta 'e prufessure.»

I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.

I blame the pencil. I hadn't meant to do it. I wasn't thinking. It just happened that way.

George Washington is the only president who never blamed the previous administration for his troubles.

It's the same the whole world over,It's the poor wot gets the blame,It's the rich wot gets the pleasure,Ain't it all a bloomin' shame?

Surely God wrongs not men anything, but themselves men wrong.

As soon as you see a mistake and don't fix it, it becomes your mistake.

Let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa [Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault].

Your blood be upon your own heads.

General Failure's Fault. Not Yours.

Hanlon's RazorNever attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Flagrante delicto ["Red-handed"].

Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you're living in an illusion. There's something seriously wrong with you. You're not seeing reality. Something inside of you has to change. But what do we generally do when we have a negative feeling? "He is to blame, she is to blame. She's got to change." No! The world's all right. The one who has to change is you.

Men cluster to me like moths around a flame, and if their wings burn, I know I'm not to blame.

You think that's going to exonerate you?

It's always about blame, isn't it? These things happen and you have to find some way to make them make sense.

You're a miserable bastard, Hawthorne. You always were and you still are. That business with Abbott. I shouldn't have had to take the rap for that. You screwed me over and I'm only doing this fucking job now because of you.

Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.