Quotes About Culpability

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

Life is to blame for everything.

We have become a society of people that loves to blame someone else for our condition.

Duress rarely calls out its name. Often it is a mute condition of constraint. Legally it does something else. To claim to be "under duress" in a court of law does not absolve one of a crime or exonerate the fact of one. On the contrary, it admits a culpability—a condition induced by illegitimate pressure. But it is productive, too, of a diminished, burned-out will not to succumb, when one is stripped of the wherewithal to have acted differently or better.

Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.

One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

In general, preliminary Force Protection information is shared throughout the national security community - and with U.S. allies - as part of our ongoing efforts to ensure the safety of coalition forces overseas. Leaks compromise and disrupt the critical interagency work to collect, assess, and ascribe culpability.

Whatever I am, you did it.

blaming someone else is often much easier than taking responsibility. It was a national epidemic, along with stupidity and partisanship.

That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.

A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat.

What you find when you live in the United States, you live in the West, is that when somebody fails, it's never their fault. They always like to blame somebody other than themselves for a failure.

I believe that every person's failure is their fault, every single time.

If you are going to point a finger, you point it at me.

We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.

When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

This woman only became a criminal because she touched me. I am oozing with crime. She caught it off me as one may catch typhus, or cholera, or the plague!

only one man could have been responsible for their deaths: Richard III.

The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'

General Failure's Fault. Not Yours.

Companies do not commit crimes; only their agents do. And while a company might get the benefit of some such crimes, prosecuting the company would inevitably punish, directly or indirectly, the many employees and shareholders who were totally innocent.

the sin of the representative man.

I would never have named them in the first place as they are not the ones I hold responsible. It's the organization that's to blame, the high officials are the ones to blame.

Because I don't even consider them guilty; it's the organization that's guilty, it's the high officials who are guilty