Quotes About Blame

Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if you want to call this a "gift," was a very personal, agonizing encounter with an ideological force in American culture that I had not been aware of before—one that encourages us to deny reality, submit cheerfully to misfortune, and blame only ourselves for our fate.

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

No one else needs to feel bad about what happened. Only one person.

In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.

As a player, when you get beaten, you can comfort yourself by saying you did reasonably well. As a manager, when you get beaten, you think it's all your fault, but 70,000 people and all those watching on television know it's your fault.

When you play quarterback and the offense doesn't play well, a lot of that is because of the quarterback. You're going to receive the criticism.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don't have time for hate or negativity in my life. There's no room for it.

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

It's good to have a governing body to oversee matters in making of films, but you can't blame films for what is happening in society.

I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.

Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.

All those haters, they don't understand my music. It's very unique. And I don't blame them. Hate my music. But my real cult fanbase, they like the music.

Anytime you're playing with a team that's losing, the main guy is going to take a lot of the heat.

I love doing concert choreography because everything is about your vision, come heck or high water. Of course, you also take the blame for everything, but it's wonderful to be able to make up dance for dance's sake.

Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?' But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.

I don't blame it on the Hell's Angels. I blame it on the people who were there.

Too often, it's the Washington way to hide, point fingers, and try to place blame on someone else.

The director does not have anyone to blame but himself. He or she cannot hide behind anybody. If a film is a hit, everyone gets the credit, but if it flops, only the director can be blamed.

It is high time Western establishments stopped blaming Russia for all their problems.

Ourselves our centre instead of God, is the source of all wrong and all misery.

Naturally all the glory belonged to the victim and all the shame to the Inquisitor

Heckuva job, Brownie!

He did not defy convention: when it did not interfere with whatever line of conduct he meant to pursue he conformed to it; and when it did he ignored it, affably conceding to his critics their right to censure him, if they felt so inclined, and caring neither for their praise nor their blame.