Blame Quotes

You’ll never learn anything or impress anyone by making excuses and diverting blame.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

Why must we hide, Behind walls built high?N' blame our lives, On him, her, I?

~ Kari L. Greenaway

He blamed every fucker available excepting, of course, the one who was actually to blame, the one sitting in his saddle and getting colder, hungrier, and more lost with every unpleasant moment. ‘Shit!’ he roared at nothing.

~ Joe Abercrombie

Rights begin where love ends. Shall we argue over who is the most to blame?

~ Jeanette Winterson

Engaged Audience Members are receptive to the messages of dangerous speech and to condoning group-targeted harm, but are not hardliners. For example, they may be easily influenced by charismatic leaders who promise to resolve their grievances, or be receptive to blame narratives. This could be any member of society, but certain types of people (based on demographic or other characteristics) may be disproportionately engaged.

~ Rachel Hilary Brown

People do blame you for the things they do to you.

~ Octavia E. Butler

This focusing outward...painful as it was, saved her from a more intolerable examination.

~ M.l. Stedman

It’s the way I walk through the world, carrying that fear, that the beloved will go, will die, and that I will be the one to blame.

~ Nick Flynn

Due to our act of Personal Irresponsibility, illegal businesses are set-up, our neighbourhoods are not secured and the economy directly and indirectly takes a big hit. The government alone cannot be blamed for this, because this is our neighbourhood and if we cannot take care of our immediate surroundings, then we are clearly not carrying out our responsibilities and we don’t have any business blaming someone else.

~ Sunday Adelaja

. . . nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are . . .

~ Charlotte Brontë

Beaten armies always shout, TREASON!

~ John Taliaferro

Israelis cannot be blamed for the conflicts and civilians casualties nor do the Palestinians. We can argue endlessly about it, the only one that can be blamed for this lasting battle is the Saudis fueling the conflicts for enduring their supremacy in the Arab world.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Blame is the coward’s retreat.They think it frees them, but it confines them… Blame is also the coward’s warden.

~ Steve Maraboli

Integrity and blame can never be friends.

~ Charles F. Glassman

... the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I reckon that blaming people fixes nothing. You're the only person who is going to sort you out. No-one else really can - or really cares, enough. That's what Nepalis know - better than anyone. That's our Western disease. Don't take responsibility. Take on a lawyer!

~ Jane Wilson-Howarth

The only person to blame for your situation is you.

~ Fennel Hudson

Blaming the woman for the loss of a child is like blaming the soldier for the loss of his life in battle.

~ Katherine Longshore

The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one.

~ Warren Eyster

Being the bearer of bad news is a terrible thing; sometimes you don't know if you'll have the words, the delicacy,the strength. You think of the person on the other side: how you're about to bring their world crashing down with a single phone call and deep inside them they'll hate you because their sorrow will just be searching for someone to blame. Then what do you say? That you're sorry? Sorry for what? They'll hate you even more because they'll know you're not sorry like they are. They'll know you haven't been destroyed like they have.

~ Emma Abdullah

Although stigmatizing attitudes are not limited to mental illness, the public seems to disapprove persons with psychiatric disabilities significantly more than persons with related conditions such as physical illness (34-36). Severe mental illness has been likened to drug addiction, prostitution, and criminality (37,38). Unlike physical disabilities, persons with mental illness are perceived by the public to be in control of their disabilities and responsible for causing them (34,36). Furthermore, research respondents are less likely to pity persons with mental illness, instead reacting to psychiatric disability with anger and believing that help is not deserved (35,36,39).World Psychiatry. 2002 Feb; 1(1): 16–20.PMCID: PMC1489832Understanding the impact of stigma on people with mental illnessPATRICK W CORRIGAN and AMY C WATSON

~ Patrick W. Corrigan

She knew there were words so terrible you heard them with your whole body. Guilty. And there were voices to say them. She knew there were people you might almost trust who would hear them, too, and be amazed, and still not really hear them because they know they were not the ones the words were spoken to.

~ Marilynne Robinson

The longer you blame the mirror, the longer you throw away the power to change what it is reflecting.

~ Steve Maraboli

If you think everything is someone else's fault, you'd be wrong. If you think everything is your fault, you're also wrong. Assigning blame can keep you stuck in the problem. Move on to solutions.

~ Sue Fitzmaurice

When you blame others you are effectively proclaiming that you are only response to stimuli.

~ Bryant Mcgill

How can God allow this to happen? How can our predecessors allow this to happen? How can YOU allow this to happen? We could all blame everyone else for the problems of the past that brought us the present, but that doesn't do us any good. The past has already been written, and there's nothing you can do about it. The only thing you can do is concentrate on making it a better place today. Be the present example by following your heart and not worrying what others are doing.

~ Jason Micheal Ratliff

Stop blaming and start being!

~ Bryant Mcgill

JD/Dr Cox: The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths, there's no coming back.

~ Bill Lawrence

Perfectionist parents seem to operate under the illusion that if they can just get their children to be perfect, they will be a perfect family. They put the burden of stability on the child to avoid facing the fact that they, as parents, cannot provide it. The child fails and becomes the scapegoat for family problems. Once again, the child is saddled with the blame.

~ Susan Forward

Scared people don’t really mean what they say, they’re just looking for ways to rationalize everything so they have someone or something to blame. They need to have a reason for what’s happening because when they have that they can take comfort in knowing it’s out of their control.

~ Chris Dietzel

To fundamentally solve a problem, we must understand it's cause. In that I mean the chain of actions or circumstances that led to the problem--rather than only the immediate cause, which serves only to place blame.

~ Charlie Herrick

You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.

~ Lise Meitner

There are only do and don’t, can or can’t is just an excuse.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Why do women always do this? Why are they so eager to blame themselves when someone treats them like sh*t? A guy would take a cheese grater to his tongue before admitting he screwed up.

~ Emma Chase

When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities.When discouraged other people will push back that first impulse to quit, push down their initial fear, push through feelings of helplessness and push ahead. They’re less likely to find something to blame and more likely to find a way through.

~ Steve Goodier

Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet.

~ Gillian Flynn

No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense.

~ Steve Maraboli

There has to be blame and there has to be reasons and there has to be answers and if nobody can adequately accept the blame and give a sufficient reason and provide an answer, the love, no matter how strong it is, the family, no matter how tight it is, the life, no matter how good it is, will always buckle, then snap, then drown completely under the pressure of itself, the reality of the mistrust, and the weight of its own history, because if there are no answers, the blame and the guilt become stronger than the love and those two things together become a force that no amount of love can ever break down and overcome.

~ Jason Myers

Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, the SO-1 reports, the recriminations, Snood and Tamworth's funerals. She missed everything...except the blame. It was waiting for her when she awoke...

~ Jasper Fforde

The weakest nations always blame others for their failures.

~ M.f. Moonzajer