Quotes About Blame

who's to blame for our declining culture? Has the church in America become "Christianity Light," or like the Coke product, "Christianity Zero?

Guns don't kill people. The aliens behind the triggers do.

Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

Politics thrives on simple, clean messages, something that played to Obama's advantage in 2008. Stagnant unemployment and the loss of America's AAA rating are as simple and tough as they come. This is the economy on Obama's watch, and there's no one left to blame.

Her reasons were as valid now as they had been then, but it didn't stop her from blaming herself

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

Condemn you me for that the duke did love me? So may you blame some fair and crystal river, For that some melancholic distracted man Hath drowned himself in't.

Do not impute to money the faults of human nature.

The blame culture that still prevails in the majority of businesses works against this, as it causes "false reality syndrome" or "I will tell you what I think you want to hear, or what will keep me out of trouble.

Všichni rádi v??íme tomu, že problém spo?ívá v druhých lidech. Dává nám to pocit, že jednáme správn? a že my sami nemusíme nic m?nit.

They do the work, and he gets all the money. They think he's a crook, and he thinks they're fools. You can't blame either side; they're both right.

Most people […] prefer to be coaxed or wheedled, or even driven. That way they never make a mistake: if there is one, it's always due to something or somebody else

Blame has no purpose, and it is a lousy teacher.

It was wrong. It was like arresting the gun for murder.

If we consider closely our so-called generous actions, there is none which, from some aspect, is not blameworthy an even harmful, so that we come to regret having performed it—so that we must choose, finally, between abstention and remorse.

Since we all believe that our merits are misunderstood or flouted, how admit that so general an iniquity could be the doing of mere man? It must go back further and belong to some ancient dirty work, to the very act of the Creation. Thus we know whom to blame, whom to disparage: nothing flatters and sustains us so much as being able to put the source of our indignity as far away from us as possible.

and he has never been anything worse to me than incredibly, cringingly annoying. I married the wrong man, with an inkling at the time that that was what I was doing, and so it is my fault and I am stuck.

It's a terrible painting," said Della, backing away from it with distaste. "There's definitely something wrong with the mayonnaise," said Lucy. "It looks almost curdled, as if she added the oil too quickly." "I don't know anything about mayonnaise," said Della. "It's just a terrible painting. I don't blame Dr. Vanlandingham." "But I like the idea of it, said Roger. "A portrait of a sandwich.

When women are secretly to blame they often show ostensibly the utmost womanly pride. It is a dissimulation of mind for which we ought to be obliged to them. The deception is full of dignity, if not of grandeur.

All these years later, I recognize this as the way that winners often speak of those they have harmed beyond repair. Trying to find some way to live with what we have done, we find solace in the idea that their doom was their own doing.

could also relate to wanting me to be someone I wasn't, though James couldn't be faulted for that. It had been all my doing.

Everyone in the world is guilty of something.

Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.

Right or not, a mother always blamed herself when something went wrong.