Quotes About Blame

The object, the woman, goes out into the world formed as men have formed her to be used as men wish to use her. She is then a provocation. The object provokes its use. It provokes its use because of its form, determined by the one who is provoked. The carpenter makes a chair, sits on it, then blames the chair because he is not standing. When the object complains about the use to which she is put, she is told, simply and firmly, not to provoke.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Don't blame someone or something else, or make up an excuse. Don't blame all the problems on a vendor, a programming language, management, or your coworkers.

blame. I was as terrified as anyone, knowing

The social perception of whether any supposed deficit is the parents' fault is always a critical factor in the experience of both children and parents. The attribution of responsibility to parents is often a function of ignorance, but it also reflects our anxious belief that we control our own destinies.

According to the prevailing double standard, the young man who was equally responsible for the pregnancy was not condemned for his actions. It was her fault, not their fault, that she got pregnant. This was in that period of time when there wasn't much worse that a girl could do. They almost treated you like you had committed murder or something. —

I think he is just an old man who still believes in his country, his old Germany. we all wanted a new Germany, but not at the cost of this madman, Hitler. Your grandpa can't be blamed for loving his old Germany.

Because they assume that people everywhere are animated by the same desires and fears, many Western liberals now blame their own governments for the excesses of Muslim terrorists.

Berman observes, for instance, that much of the world now blames Israel for the suicidal derangement of the Palestinians.

What we condemn most in another person is the conscious intention to do harm.

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

If we make the praise or blame of others the rule of our conduct, we shall be distracted by a boundless variety of irreconcilable judgments, be held in perpetual suspense between contrary impulses, and consult forever without determination.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night,But always think the last opinion right.A muse by these is like a mistress us'd,This hour she's idoliz'd, the next abus'd.Pope'sEss. on Crit.

If I regard my intention, gratitude, for a life preserved by you, and for a sense of my social duties (soul as well as body indebted to you, tho' a Protestant yourself) will not suffer it. Is there then nobody whom we can blame for the calamity befallen us? — How strangely is that calamity circumstanced! But is there so irreconcileable a difference between the two religious?

We always blame the woman when a man falls in love, as though no man had the courage of his inclinations.

Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate.

Any mistakes that may remain are, of course, my responsibility.

You may blame Aphrodite soft as she is she has almost killed me with love for that boy

Having evidence of being wronged does not stop you from being judged as in the wrong.

And I understood being made to feel guilty for things that weren't your fault.

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

What if even if I had told, or did tell, nobody believed me? Or even worse, blamed me for it?

For some reason, blame is often directed toward me. I have to be vigilant.

Sorry? For what, Mom? She looked at me, eyes widening, For not protecting you, she said. All this time I'd been the one with everything to hide, everything to be ashamed of. Is hadn't even occurred to me that someone else might think to take the blame. I should have known what was happening. I should have known just by looking at you