Quotes About Culpability

It wasn't my fault.

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.

La culpa es de mi jefe".

Pues no, la culpa es tuya en realidad por no haberle enseñado bien, por no haber influido en él,

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

I don't mind admitting that, whenever I looked at Cyril's face, I always had a feeling that he couldn't have got that way without its being mostly his own fault.

We just have to find out what he's guilty of.

You're acting as if you believe this is our fault." "Of course it's our fault!" Walter was almost shouting now.

it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

And the most awful thing about it is that it's all my fault—all my fault, though I'm not to blame.

Mas, para uma pessoa insatisfeita, é difícil não por a culpa nos outros, sobretudo em quem estiver mais perto de tudo aquilo que causa a sua insatisfação.

FDR misjudgment, one frequently ignored by historians: the president's refusal to concede Soviet culpability in the Katyn Wood massacre, one of the worst war crimes of the twentieth century.

There's no one else to blame. No Bores or Old Ladies or Norton or Assassins waiting at the bridge.

I do not blame you, child, for growing up," she announced. "But I teach you this: Whatever happens is always the woman's fault.

In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form, so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess.

No, what they want is to experience a passion so huge, overwhelming, powerful and irresistible that it obliterates any guilt or tension or culpability they might feel about betraying their perceived responsibilities.

It strikes me there is some difference between holding a man responsible for an act which he has not done, and holding him responsible for an act that he has done.

M]aterialism clearly poses a bit of a problem for a central tenet of the justice system - namely, that people exert free will in their actions, including their criminal actions. If actions are merely the inevitable consequences of hard-wired brain circuitry - or, pushing the chain of causation back a step, of the genes we inherit from our parents - then the concept of genuine moral culpability becomes untenable.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it

To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so.

7.?YOU'RE ALWAYS THE ONE TO BLAME WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG. You are the one who needs to be guided, taught, and corrected. That's because everything is your fault—even, or perhaps especially,

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

But it does imply that the search for scapegoats—a particularly alluring pastime in individualistic cultures such as ours in the United States—is a blind alley.

You've nobody to blame but yourself, you know.