Blame Quotes

“When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

“fruit of passive-aggressive people. These people resist demands by indirect tactics. They will not take responsibility for their own choices; instead, they turn around and blame someone else for making them do it. Or they will agree to do things that they don’t really want to do, and then gripe about the person behind her back.”
― Henry Cloud, Changes That Heal: How to Understand the Past to Ensure a Healthier Future

“Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“Religion, with its metaphysical error of absolute guilt, dominated the broadest, the cosmic realm. From there, it infiltrated the subordinate realms of biological, social and moral existence with its errors of the absolute and inherited guilt. Humanity, split up into millions of factions, groups, nations and states, lacerated itself with mutual accusations. "The Greeks are to blame," the Romans said, and "The Romans are to blame," the Greeks said. So they warred against one another. "The ancient Jewish priests are to blame," the early Christians shouted. "The Christians have preached the wrong Messiah," the Jews shouted and crucified the harmless Jesus. "The Muslims and Turks and Huns are guilty," the crusaders screamed. "The witches and heretics are to blame," the later Christians howled for centuries, murdering, hanging, torturing and burning heretics. It remains to investigate the sources from which the Jesus legend derives its grandeur, emotional power and perseverance.

Let us continue to stay outside this St. Vitus dance. The longer we look around, the crazier it seems. Hundreds of minor patriarchs, self-proclaimed kings and princes, accused one another of this or that sin and made war, scorched the land, brought famine and epidemics to the populations. Later, this became known as "history." And the historians did not doubt the rationality of this history.

Gradually the common people appeared on the scene. "The Queen is to blame," the people's representatives shouted, and beheaded the Queen. Howling, the populace danced around the guillotine. From the ranks of the people arose Napoleon. "The Austrians, the Prussians, the Russians are to blame," it was now said. "Napoleon is to blame," came the reply. "The machines are to blame!" the weavers screamed, and "The lumpenproletariat is to blame," sounded back. "The Monarchy is to blame, long live the Constitution!" the burgers shouted. "The middle classes and the Constitution are to blame; wipe them out; long live the Dictatorship of the Proletariat," the proletarian dictators shout, and "The Russians are to blame," is hurled back. "Germany is to blame," the Japanese and the Italians shouted in 1915. "England is to blame," the fathers of the proletarians shouted in 1939. And "Germany is to blame," the self-same fathers shouted in 1942. "Italy, Germany and Japan are to blame," it was said in 1940.

It is only by keeping strictly outside this inferno that one can be amazed that the human animal continues to shriek "Guilty!" without doubting its own sanity, without even once asking about the origin of this guilt. Such mass psychoses have an origin and a function. Only human beings who are forced to hide something catastrophic are capable of erring so consistently and punishing so relentlessly any attempt at clarifying such errors.”
― Wilhelm Reich, Ether, God and Devil: Cosmic Superimposition

“Religion forces every individual to take responsibility. Specifically, take it away from yourself and give it to God. If we had to be accountable for every one of our actions, we'd be crippled with indecision. But with religion pointing the way, we can feel confident in our choice to picket our children's elementary school when we find out the art teacher is gay.”
― Stephen Colbert, I Am America

“The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Which is just another way of blaming, and perhaps the best way, because there is solace and a certain stoical peace in blaming everything on the rain, and then blaming something as uncontrollable as the rain on something as indifferent as the Arm of the Lord.

Because nothing can be done about the rain except blaming. And if nothing can be done about it, why get yourself in a sweat about it?”
― Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion

“A victim is someone who blames it all on someone else. Why give all the power to someone else and leave yourself powerless?”
― Christina Moss

“They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, The Drowned Cities

“Many have blamed the gasoline shortages and long lines at filling stations in 1973 on the Arab Oil embargo of that year. However, the shortages and long lines began months before the Arab oil embargo, right after price controls were imposed.”
― Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

“trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's done to some of his other victims, Edward would drown the world in blood to erase those images.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

“Blame is the creed of the disempowered.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Oh, I know, I know that heart, that wild but grateful heart, gentlemen of the jury! It will bow before your mercy; it thirsts for a great and loving action, it will melt and mount upwards. There are souls which, in their limitation, blame the whole world. But subdue such a soul with mercy, show it love, and it will curse its past, for there are many good impulses in it. Such a heart will expand and see that God is merciful and that men are good and just. He will be horror-stricken; he will be crushed by remorse and the vast obligation laid upon him henceforth. And he will not say then, 'I am quits,' but will say, 'I am guilty in the sight of all men and am more unworthy than all.' With tears of penitence and poignant, tender anguish, he will exclaim: 'Others are better than I, they wanted to save me, not to ruin me!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“How was the wolf to blame, if the sheep were roaming free?”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

“Being a woman, I tried, I cared, I loved and blamed in return.”
― Priyanka Bhowmick

“You can turn every ugly and damaging drama into a genuine blessing by seeing it differently. No one is suffering on purpose. We learn to give up the pleasure we feel in self-righteously blaming others. Healing happens when we see things differently. The question is: do you want suffering or peace? It's that simple.”
― Donna Goddard, Waldmeer

“إننا - نحن العرب و المسلمين - خنا ديننا خيانة فاحشة فلم نحسن النظر في شيء مع صراخ الوحي حولنا " أو لم ينظروافي ملكوت السماوات و الأرض و ما خلق الله من شيء " و كانت النتيجة أن جاء - من وراء الحدود - من استخرج النفط من أرضنا ، و اقام الجسور على إنهارنا و من صنع لنا حتى الإبرة التي نخيط بها ملابسنا”
― محمد الغزالي, دستور الوحدة الثقافية بين المسلمين

“Don't blame yourself for the cracks of a world that was distroyed far before you were born.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Twisted Bonds

“They came to the high stone shaft with the face of Sul; they descended to the terrace below. And here Caradog waited, leaning on his silver-tipped rod and eying the horizon, until the delicate slip of the new moon moved out from behind the shoulder of Mount Damyake, with the mysterious, shadowy ghost of the old moon cradle inside it, like an egg inside its egg cup.

"Now it is time," he said.

"Blame it!" expostulated Dido. "It ain't right for me to die! Have you thought of that, mister? You're and old gager; you've lived nigh on fourscore years, I shouldn't wonder. You did a whole lot of things and learned a lot o' stuff --- though mussy knows, you ain't put it to very good use. But I haven't hardly done nothing! And I ain't learned much, neither, except the use of the globes that Mr. Holy taught me, and how to curtsy and cut up whales."

At the thought of Mr. Holystone her voice, to her shame, began to wobble dangerously; she stopped speaking and drew a deep breath.

"Cease repining, child, and go down those steps," said Caradog. "Do not quarrel with your destiny. If Sul wishes you to die, then it is your time."

Dido remembered the story that Bran had told about the man who picked up the necklace. Well, if it is my destiny, she thought, best not to make a pother about it.”
― Joan Aiken, The Stolen Lake

“Euere Schuld, Deichgraf!" schrie eine Stimme aus dem Haufen.”
― Theodor Storm, Der Schimmelreiter

“When you don't understand the consequences of your acts, how can you be blamed for them?" ...

"You don't take the blame," he answered. "But you still take responsibility. For healing the wounds you caused.”
― Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

“We needed a symbol into which to pour our fear and mistrust of the world, and we have chosen the wolf, and chosen it with passion and commitment.”
― Katherine Rundell, Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

“While it may be easy to ‘blame’ others for your circumstances, your destiny lies solely in your hands.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide

“You did it all on your own, letting your humanity guide you to ruin.”
― David Ferraro, A Vile Season

“After a certain age, you are no longer the product of your environment
or how you were raised. It's a personal choice to live the way you do. At some point, blaming your past becomes a distraction from your future. Healing is your responsibility. Growth is your decision.”
― Steve Maraboli

“How can you repent for a mistake that wasn't made by you?”
― Deston J. Munden, Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife

“Accountability is one of life’s sharpest mirrors.
It doesn’t flatter... It doesn’t filter... It reflects.

Because of this, sometimes what you see hurts… but this pain isn’t your enemy... avoidance is.

The discomfort you feel from taking accountability is the friction that will sharpen your soul and refine your path. It hurts (a lot sometimes), but the sting you feel can be the birth of change.

Real accountability isn’t just taking blame... It’s taking responsibility. Remember, healing begins the moment blame ends. Don’t run from it... run through it!

Let today be the day you no longer allow yourself to be shackled by the stagnant cycle of blaming others. Take accountability for your actions and decisions, regain control of your story, and unlock the unlimited potential of your growth.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Do not seek to blame, for the universe unfolds as it must, and every soul walks its own path toward the divine.”
― Unknown Author

“Don't become the enemy trying to fix people. People will always love their old ways, which may just work for them.

If they accept your instructions when you are around them and do otherwise when you are absent, they fear you, not respect you.

Let them be the architects of their own doom without blaming it on you.”
― Lord Uzih

“I could own up to my mistakes. If I did something wrong, I could admit to it. And then I’d try and fix it to the best of my ability. Sometimes I could. Sometimes I made things worse. But my heart was always in the right place, and I never tried to let anyone else take the blame for something I did. Not when it counted.”
― T.J. Klune, A Destiny of Dragons