Quotes About Blame

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

Whenever Germany lose or play badly, there are 1,000 reasons. And no matter how many questions there are, we will never make everyone happy.

I used to cry when I let in a goal. I always thought I was to blame because I was the last man.

You can't blame another person for your world being different - or things like divorce. It gets right on my goat when people don't take responsibility.

While I have always had a good relationship with my father, much of the time it has been a very limited relationship until I was older. So you can't really give him credit or blame for how I turned out.

Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?

Si les peuples de la Terre n'étaient pas préparés à la venue des Martiens, c'était entièrement leur faute.

When de Gaulle and Bohlen met at the Elysee a few days after the coup the French leader spoke in harsh tones. You will be blamed for the deaths of Diem and Nhu, he told the American. You may do and say what you like; no one will believe you. It is you who will be held responsible.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

I suffer: someone or other must be guilty' – and every sick sheep thinks the same.

He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.

Even a man who makes the most modest pretensions to integrity must know that a theologian, a priest, a pope of today not only errs when he speaks, but actually lies—and that he no longer escapes blame for his lie through "innocence" or "ignorance." The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

I suffer: someone or other must be guilty - Every sick sheep thinks the same.

There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame, his own justice that is beyond appeal.

No individual is ever made better by having his guilt excused as the result of his external environment, of bad playgrounds, of Oedipus or Electra, of Grade B milk, bad politics, or want of social opportunity.

We live in a world that hates women so much that they would sooner blame a woman for reporting a crime than punish a man for committing it.

The problem is that when Argentina doesn't play well - and the same is true of Barcelona - the press think it is easy to blame Messi. We have seen time and time again that he wins games on his own when the team is not performing - but the media expect him to always be the hero.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.