Quotes about Blame

Blaming others wouldn't do. Only when I began to see the world's ills mirrored in myself did I begin to find an answer; only as I began to address that uncomfortable word, sin, did I see that I was not being handed a load of needless guilt so much as a useful tool for confronting the negative side of human behavior.

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

I told you again that you were the reason Adam ate the apple and its core. That when he left Eden, he left a rich man. Not only did he have Eve, but he had the taste of the first apple in the world in his mouth for the rest of his life.

What you reckon make him do a thing like that? Beats me. Just nasty. Well, they ought to take her out of school. Ought to. She carry some of the blame. Oh, come on. She ain't but twelve or so. Yeah. But you never know. How come she didn't fight him?

When the land kills of its own volition we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

we can't use someone else's irresponsibility in the past as an excuse for our irresponsibility in the present. If

I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.

There is a difference between discussion and argument. A discussion airs the issues, but an argument alleges charges and appoint blame.

Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.