Quotes About Culpability

throw up his hands and say, 'Who, me? I had nothing to do with it.'

You," he began. "You bastards." Silence. "Where was the FBI these past four days? This was your fault—your fault!" His voice, starting out in a whisper, crescendoed by the end into a roar, spittle flecking his lips.

I demand of you a thousand pardons, monsieur. I am without defence. For some months now I cultivate the marrows. This morning suddenly I enrage myself with these marrows. I send them to promenade themselves - alas! not only mentally but physically. I seize the biggest. I hurl him over the wall. Monsieur, I am ashamed. I prostrate myself.

Mon Dieu! It is that in this country you treat the affairs gastronomic with a criminal indifference.

A man is responsible for his deeds, and not just the deeds, but for the consequences of those deeds, as well.

That's right," said Mrs. Oliver in an exasperated voice, "blame it all on me as usual!

If crimes are committed, they are committed by people; they are not committed by some free-floating entity. These companies and other entities don't operate on automatic pilot. There are individuals that make decisions - and some make the right decisions, and some make the wrong decisions.

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

But if I'm useless only because I haven't been properly educated, is that my fault?

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim. Richard Bach

EÄŸer olanlar hiçbir zaman sizin hatan?z deÄŸilse, sorumluluk alam?yorsunuz demektir. EÄŸer hiçbir ÅŸeyin sorumluluÄŸunu üstlenemiyorsan?z, daima bir ÅŸeylerin maÄŸduru olursunuz.

We want to blame an individual so that everyone else is exculpated. Or we blame a historical process as a way of exonerating individuals.

Billie Jo threw the pail, they said. An accident, they said.

Some Other Dude Did It

Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

No problem is so big and difficult that it can't be blamed on somebody else.

You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.

Never in our history was we able to blame someone else for our troubles.

Everyone is responsible and no one is to blame.

What do you want? You're finished. You don't begin to suspect how finished you are. When all these people hear about what you've done to their folks, they're just going to mob you. They'd hang you, but you won't last that long. They'll tear you apart like a pack of dogs.