Quotes About Culpability

It is only losers that are prosecuted.

During the Bosnian conflict, an international tribunal was established to prosecute the perpetrators of crimes against humanity. I was a firm advocate of the tribunal because only through a judicial process is it possible to establish individual culpability for crimes that might otherwise be attributed to an entire group—and nothing does more to trigger additional cycles of violence than perceptions of collective guilt.

through a judicial process is it possible to establish individual culpability for crimes that might otherwise be attributed to an entire group—and nothing does more to trigger additional cycles of violence than perceptions of collective guilt.

Tutti colpevoli, nessuno colpevole,' as the Italian saying has it: 'If everyone is guilty, no one is guilty.

then to shift the blame for it onto the shoulders of others.

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

The winners are those who learn to take full responsibility for their actions. The losers are those who blame others for their failures.

A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing you have no one to blame but your self

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Está aquí, como una limitada, como una insólita, accesible felicidad, y yo, con las disculpables culpas que tú y yo conocemos, y que sólo me molestan como un mal menor [...] quiero asir la ocasión, quiero ofrecerme a él, porque él es el presente y yo creo en el presente

when they fail at sports or school or life, it's not because they didn't work hard enough or they're just not smart enough or good enough. No, they're special, so it's got to be someone else's fault. They didn't fail. Someone made them fail.

If the cops didn't see it, I didn't do it!

Trouble comes to those who bring it upon themselves, her mother used to say

To err is human; to blame it on the other guy is even more human. —Bob Goddard

One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

It's not you. It's them. (No, really. It is.)

I'm saying people can be real creative when it comes to ducking responsibility.

Elections, like criminal trials, are ultimately always about assigning blame.

Unfortunately, that's going to be attributable a lot to people who did not heed the advance warnings.

Given these proclivities on the part of food companies—competitive, beholden to Wall Street, and in utter denial about their culpability—an intervention by Washington would certainly seem to be in order.

That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.