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Quotes About Blame

I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.
~ Yoko Ono
I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
~ James Dean
at AES, the builder and operator of electricity-producing cogeneration plants, CEO Roger Sant implemented a "they busters" campaign with all the necessary buttons, posters, and flyers to help workers stop blaming the elusive "they" who always seem to stifle results. "They" represent all the finger-pointing, denying, ignoring, pretending, and waiting habits that grow up in organizations and keep people from taking charge of their own destinies.
~ Roger Connors
To get Above The Line, and out of the blame game, you must climb the Steps To Accountability by adopting See It, Own It, Solve It, Do It attitudes.
~ Roger Connors
We believe this spiraling lack of happiness today is simply due to a lack of accountability.
~ Roger Connors
As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.
~ Roland Barthes
but I could see that she blamed me for the fact that her teacher was twenty-one minutes late. I
~ Roland Merullo
Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others
~ Roland Merullo
Also, for the man, there is still one more loophole. If, by the grace of God, she's humble by nature and and ready to assume guilt, she might just think: 'I don't turn him on,' or 'He doesn't love me any longer.' And there it is, then understanding between the sexes, my friend. You can always blame it on her.
~ Romain Gary
You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan's Island.
~ Ron Jeremy
During the Charlottesville protests, Trump saw nuance—there was violence on "many sides," there was "blame on both sides," and there were "many fine people" among the neo-Nazis.
~ Ronald J. Sider
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
~ Ronald Reagan
Sociopaths don't accept blame and often blame others for acts they obviously committed.
~ Rosalind Noonan
but he did know that the bad things were caused by other people, not by God Himself. Evil lived in the hearts of men.
~ Rosalind Noonan
In the legal sphere, fault and blame play an important role. The law-abiding driver is entitled to sue the perpetrator to cover his losses, however they be construed. But we are talking about access to possibility, not to victory or remuneration. Gracing yourself with responsibility for everything that happens in your life leaves your spirit whole, and leaves you free to choose again.
~ Rosamund Stone Zander
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~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Responsibility is the ability to respond.
~ Lucille Ball
When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Per chi cade nella colpa, signore, il responsabile di tutte le colpe che seguono, non è sempre chi, primo, determinò la caduta?
~ Luigi Pirandello
come se parimenti dalle proprie sofferenze vi fosse abilitato. E se gli altri non gli fanno il bene quasi per dovere, egli li accusa, e di tutto il male ch'egli fa quasi per diritto, facilmente si scusa.
~ Luigi Pirandello
Like all junkies, I guess I'd thought for a long time that my environment was the problem. My situation. The people I knew.
~ Luke Davies
The poet Rainer Maria Rilke once remarked that in your darkest moments you shouldn't blame your life. Instead, you should blame yourself for not being able to see the poetry.
~ M. Christian
Most people who come to see a psychiatrist are suffering from what is called either a neurosis or a character disorder... When neurotics are in conflict with the world they automatically assume that they are at fault. When those with character disorders are in conflict with the world they automatically assume that the world is at fault.
~ M. Scott Peck
I suppose that depends on how you look at it," Meg said. "Usually no matter what happens people think it's my fault, even if I have nothing to do with it at all. But I'm sorry I tried to fight him. It's just been an awful week. And I'm full of bad feeling.
~ Madeleine L'Engle