Quotes about Blame
We blame our suffering on another person or group, or on bad luck, but outside conditions are not the reason it appears. Our suffering was already there.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'
— Joyce Meyer
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
— Theodore Roosevelt
It takes two to get one in trouble.
— Mae West
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
— Albert Schweitzer
Shall love be blamed for want of faith?
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
— Seneca
The theoretical purpose of that grotesque absurdity is to establish a moral inversion: to make the initiation of force moral, and resistance to force immoral—and thus to obliterate the right of self-defense. The immediate practical purpose is to foster the activities of the lowest political breed: the provocateurs, who commit acts of force and place the blame on their victims.
— Ayn Rand
You don't have to worry about the intellectuals, Wesley. Just put a few of them on the government payroll and send them out to preach precisely the sort of thing Mr. Kinnan mentioned: that the blame rests on the victims. Give them moderately comfortable salaries and extremely loud titles—and they'll forget their copyrights and do a better job for you than whole squads of enforcement officers.
— Ayn Rand
To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
— Barack Obama
I don't think I really like myself. And I blame the Old Man for this.
— Barack Obama