Quotes About Culpability

We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

Blame Lewis.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.

Liars will lie, and continue to do so, even beyond being caught out. They will lie, and in time, such liars will convince themselves, will in all self-righteousness divest the liars of culpability. Until comes a time when one final lie is voiced, the one that can only be answered by rage, by cold murder, and on that day, blood

Consider this then a warning. Liars will lie, and continue to do so, even beyond being caught out. They will lie, and in time, such liars will convince themselves, will in all self-righteousness divest the liars of culpability. Until comes a time when one final lie is voiced, the one that can only be answered by rage, by cold murder, and on that day, blood shall rain down every wall of this vaunted, weaning society.

A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.

Missy was quick to assign blame for her mistakes not to herself but to whoever caused her to lose control.

So, really, this was all Ramirez's fault. (What can I say? Twelve years of Catholic school had taught me how to reassign guilt with the best of them.)

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible

Un matón a sueldo es lo mismo que una confesión de culpa.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

It's not my fault, what?" she countered, as she opened the package of chocolate chips. "That I make you 'feel' something--other than miserable?

there's plenty of blame to go around.

Yes, it's your fault I'm alive.

there's plenty of blame to go around. But without them, I would not have been part of a larger plot to overthrow the Capitol or had the wherewithal to do it.

People blame their environment, their education, their opportunities, their luck, for their condition. They are wrong. There is one person to blame — and only one — THEMSELVES.

Everyone needs someone to blame.

Which means," said Rowan, "that this is your fault." And then he added with a little bit of derision, "Your Excellency.

Historical memory is hijacked by those who carry out war. They seek, when the memory challenges the myth, to obliterate or hide the evidence that exposes the myth as lie. The destruction is pervasive, aided by an establishment, including the media, which apes the slogans and euphemisms parroted by the powerful. Because nearly everyone in wartime is complicit, it is difficult for societies to confront their own culpability and the lie that led to it.