Quotes About Culpability

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 a life. 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 life that led to it.

I always like cases when the victim's been practically begging to be killed. It means I don't have to be sorry for him.

When politicians' backs are against the wall, they may reluctantly acknowledge error but not their responsibility for it. The phrase "mistakes were made" is such a glaring effort to absolve oneself of culpability that it has become a national joke—what the political journalist Bill Schneider called the "past exonerative" tense.

Memories are often pruned and shaped with an ego-enhancing bias that blurs the edges of past events, softens culpability, and distorts what really happened.

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself, and no one else, has made it.

It is always so much easier to blame someone else rather than accepting responsibility for your experiences.

When we get him," Eve continued, "it's going to come out that she—this symbol—knocked him around or boo-hoo broke his heart or made him feel weak and helpless. So his defense lawyers will come along saying: Oh, he was damaged, poor sick son of a bitch. He's not responsible. And that's a pile of shit, that's a big, smelly pile of bullshit. Because nobody's responsible for choking the life out of Elisa Maplewood but him. Nobody.

Admitting it would mean accepting some responsibility and blame, something she isn't equipped to do. Others must be blamed.

Look - this is the terror of being a founder & CEO. It is all your fault. Every decision, every person you hire, every dumb thing you buy or do - ultimately, you're at the end.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable

It's not my fault

we are only responsible for the things we do—or fail to do—ourselves.

A body is never so vicious as when it has only itself to blame for its trouble.

Un fantasma si aggira per l'Italia: l'idea che tutto sia dovuto, che non ci si debba impegnare per ottenere risultati e che la colpa dei nostri problemi sia sempre degli altri. Questo atteggiamento mentale autoassolutorio si traduce quasi naturalmente nell'offesa rispetto ai titolari dei privilegi, veri o presunti.

A sabotagem é uma explicação muito mais convincente do que a ineficácia, Vadia. Quando é descoberto, o culpado pode ser punido. Faz-se justiça, alguém pagou e a ordem é restabelecida. É esse o ponto fundamental. O

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.

Apathy and arrogance: These are the real culprits that affect us all to one degree or another.

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But it's a lot easier to blame someone else than accept blame for your own failings.

It's difficult to accept full responsibility and apportion blame at the same time – you have to choose one.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.