Quotes About Culpability

Robert Sapolsky, professor of neurology at Stanford, makes the extremely strong statement: "It's boggling that the legal system's gold standard for an insanity defense—M'Naghten—is based on 166-year-old science. Our growing knowledge about the brain makes notions of volition, culpability, and, ultimately, the very premise of a criminal justice system, deeply suspect.

the president always needed someone else to blame; that nothing bad happened to him that was not directly caused by the failure or active malice of someone else.

Don't blame other people for your own mistakes.

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on a woman.

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

I suppose I'm the one responsible for destroying myself.

These days, projecting blame is almost an art form.

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

He blamed Lily, because who else was there?

Blame is something that is shared and denied in equal measures.

Anita, she won't take responsibility for her actions and complains that she's always the "victim.