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Quotes About Blame

I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.
~ Delta Burke
Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him.
~ Arnold Rothstein
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
~ Robert Frost
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Finding a 'sacrificial lamb' on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important instrument in the toolkit of politicians, because it deflects blame for the nation's economic woes away from their own regulatory lapses, economic mismanagement and coddling to labor unions.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
It is always easier to have somebody to blame, but immigrants are not the cause of the country's economic woes.
~ Pramila Jayapal
The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.
~ Elihu Root
Everybody is responsible for their own actions. It's easy to point the finger at somebody else, but a real man, a real woman, a real person knows when it's time to take the blame and when to take responsibility for their own actions.
~ Marcus Smart
There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.
~ Juvenal
Men get away with everything. But if a wife has an affair, she gets the blame. When husband has an affair The Other Woman' gets the bad name.
~ Abhinav Shukla
Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.
~ Germaine Greer
People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
~ Robert Collier
When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
~ Bob Dylan
The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.
~ Kathleen Troia McFarland
I have 40 pounds to lose. It is not the fault of the fast food people, and anyone who's trying to sue the fast food places needs a therapist, not an attorney.
~ Richard Simmons
My generation are the neurotic ones. Therapists' offices all over the world are full of patients blaming their parents for their own failings.
~ John Bishop
I know it's fashionable to blame your childhood for everything nowadays - thank you, Freud. The thing is, though, I really don't feel scarred by mine. But perhaps if I'd been in therapy for 10 years, and you were able to read the records, you'd disagree.
~ Neil Morrissey
I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.
~ Prince William
If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there.
~ James Longstreet
If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.
~ Peggy Noonan
Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.
~ Vijay Mallya
If you scapegoat someone, it's a third party that will be aware of it. It won't be you. Because you will believe you are doing the right thing.
~ Rene Girard
Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
~ John McCarthy