Quotes about Blame

If lightning strikes a rotten tree and it collapses, it's not the fault of the lightning.

The only guilt of the victims, he thought, had been that they accepted it as guilt.

The originator of an idea cannot be held responsible for egregious misuse of his theory.

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Such people neither steal, nor murder, nor commit adultery, but do good according to their abilities. But... they must close their eyes and ears to the injustice around them. Only at the cost of self-deception can they keep their private blamelessness clean from the stains of responsible action in the world. In all that they do, what they fail to do will not let them rest. They will either be destroyed by this unrest, or they will become the most hypocritical of all Pharisees.

We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism.

What's the good? he'll always be innocent, you can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.

You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless.

scapegoaters, but rather on the side of the scapegoated victim.

It's easy enough to notice how often dysfunctional families and societies finally collapse into an orgy of mutual blaming. That's satanic work.

one sin demands another to cover it.