Quotes About Culpability

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

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

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

He knew he had only himself to blame; but it was more or less entirely her fault.

After you've sold this story, Mrs. Clark says, will you just look for a new villain? For the rest of your life, will you be looking for someone new to blame everything on?

While we avoid taking credit for success, women leap at the opportunity to take responsibility for failure. Men tend to externalize the reasons for their failure, putting it off on something or someone else. Not so women, who absorb blame as if they were born to be societys doormats. (Some women like to speak of their willingness to take blame as if it were a form of altruism. It isn't. Women take the blame because they find it scary to confront those who are actually culpable of wrongdoing.)

His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as rationally charge their delight in filth upon him, as a glutton can shift upon his cook the responsibility of his beastly excess.

As if the estrangement between them had come of any culpability of hers. As if Mr. Lorry had not known it for a fact, years ago, in the quiet corner in Soho, that this precious brother had spent her money and left her! He was saying the affectionate word, however, with a far more grudging condescension and patronage than he could have shown if their relative merits and positions had been reversed (which is invariably the case, all the world over),

A wrong person is not always wrong because of their wrong actions, often they are wrong because of no actions.

Maybe justice is finally catching up with this asshole.

There's nothing wrong with blame, if blame is due.

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

I'll tell you something. If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

Blamelessness does not relieve us of responsibility

I hate that, I said. It's like there's no human beings in the chain of responsibility, just things-that-happen. It's the ultimate cop-out. The system did it. The company did it. The government did it. What about the person who pulls the trigger?

There you are; human nature in action, wrongdoers, blaming everybody but themselves. We are all like that.

wrongdoers, blaming everybody but themselves. We

When you join the most monstrous of killing organizations, when you carry its seal, you become responsible for its crimes.

Look out!! Ha! Now you've done it! Now you've broken a lamp, and you've got no one to blame it on but yourself!" "Maybe I could blame it on society!

There's our excuse... we'll blame everything on the round-headed kid!

Man goes to great lengths to avoid his own responsibility.

Where all, or almost all, are guilty, nobody is.

Wie het gedaan heeft, heeft het gedaan en niet iemand anders.