Quotes about Blame
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
- Victor Hugo
The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
- Victor Hugo
They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?
- Victor Hugo
Those who are ignorant should be taught all you can teach them; society is to blame for not providing free public education; and society will answer for the obscurity it produces. If the soul is left in darkness, sin will be committed. The guilty party is not he who has sinned but he who created the darkness in the first place.
- Victor Hugo
All at once I understood that it had only been my illusion that we ourselves saddle events and control their courses; the truth is that they aren't our stories at all, that they are foisted on us from somewhere outside; that in no way do they represent us; that we are not to blame for the strange paths they follow; that they are themselves directed from who knows where by who knows what strange forces.
- Milan Kundera
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