Blame Quotes

“He always was a stubborn mule. But who would actually kill him over vegetables? It just doesn’t add up.”
― Stella Sinclaire, Fertile Ground for Murder

“Lots of “I” and “me” in this chapter. Mother-Judah has a very egocentric manner of speech. Maybe Judah hopes she can out-talk God. Maybe Judah hopes she can convince God that, all things considered, she ain’t as bad as the other nations. (De 18:9-14)
Narcissist partners rarely miss an opportunity to point fingers—and that’s how Judah decides to end chapter one.”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Lamentations: how narcissistic leaders torment church and family

“Blame is useless amidst madness.”
― Cory Richards, The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within

“The ignorant blame others for their own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise see all blame as foolishness.”
― Epictetus

“We like the idea that there’s always someone responsible for any given event, because that helps us make sense of the world. We like that so much that sometimes we blame ourselves, just so that there’s someone to blame. But not everything is under our control, or even anyone’s control.”
― Ted Chiang, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

“This tendency to blame people for their own pain is comforting, in a twisted way: it allows us to close up our hearts and ignore the suffering of others.”
― Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist

“If we dig deep enough, we can find a way to blame ourselves for anything.”
― Madeline Freeman, Christmas in Clearwater: A Clearwater Witches Tale

“In certain quarters the quest for scapegoats had begun. It was important to know whose fault all this was. It was important to know if things were going to get worse. Maybe there were identifiable persons, destabilizing persons, who were somehow responsible for the destabilized world.”
― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“Choose the good so that the results will be good. If you choose the bad, you only have to blame yourself.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Maybe you’re that ‘someone else’ whose job everything appears to be.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Avoiding accountability and shifting blame only delays the path to growth and self-improvement.”
― Carlos Wallace

“Instead of running from accountability and chasing blame, stand still and let responsibility guide your way.”
― Carlos Wallace, Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free

“War guilt can lead to ever more militant acts of self-justification. Once blood has been shed in dubious circumstances, those involved often try to brazen it out: first, through blaming the injured party for forcing them to act thus; and second, through affirming the validity of their violence by persisting with it.”
― Julia Lovell, The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China

“... to say we would repeat history was unfair when that history was unknown to us.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“An addict finds fault in those who love them most to justify continuing their addiction, and seeing as though no one is blameless, they'll pin point other's imperfections and name them as 'your fault'.”
― Deanna L. Lawlis

“We may use blame and criticism to cover up needs that we have not expressed or that have not been met.”
― David Richo, 亲密关系的重建

“Those who praise you during your risen will trample on you when you fall and blaming you.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“If you were the gateway for refuge in times of trouble and you were isolated the gateway shut to your face in the time of happiness, if you didn't learn a lesson from it, just blame yourself.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“What divided Homo sapiens from brute creation was the need to apportion responsibility. If a lion went hungry or a chimpanzee could not find a mate, it was no one's fault. But from the dawn of time man had been blaming the climate, the terrain, fate, the gods, some other tribe or just some other person. To be a man, as distinct from being a chimpanzee, was to be forever at the mercy of a supernatural entity, a force, a being or a collection of beings, whose only function was to make your life on earth unbearable. And wasn’t this the secret of man’s success: that in chasing dissatisfaction down to its malignant cause he had hit upon the principle, first of religion and then of progress? What was evolution - what was revolution - but the logic of blame in action? What was the pursuit of justice but punishment of the blameworthy?
And who were the most blameworthy of all? Those whom you had loved.”
― Howard Jacobson, J

“Why do you keep avoiding accountability again? Blaming...really?”
― Viccy

“Every problem has two sides. It’s easy to blame both sides on others, but the hardest part is taking ownership of your side and fixing it.”
― Siddharth Katragadda, The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse

“Every politician I talk to seems to say the same thing: "Now is not the time to point fingers." Spin doctors even come up with the term blame game. "I'm not going to play the blame game," they say, dismissing you when you ask for answers, for the names of officials who made key decisions. I notice that some reporters start using the term too. I can't understand why. Demanding accountability is no game, and there's nothing wrong with trying to understand who made mistakes, who failed. If no one is held accountable for their decisions, for their actions, all of this will happen again. Not one person has yet to stand up and admit wrongdoing. No politician, no bureaucrat, has admitted a specific mistake. Some have made blanket statements, saying they accept responsibility for whatever went wrong. But that's not good enough. We need to know specifics. What was done wrong? What were the mistakes? I ask any official I can. No one will answer. The only "mistakes" they admit to are actually veiled criticisms of others. The mayor should have declared a mandatory evacuation on Saturday, instead of waiting until Sunday. Precious hours were lost. The governor could have done that as well, but didn't. They could have moved hundreds of city buses and local school buses to higher ground and used them to evacuate the nearly one hundred thousand residents who had no access to private transportation. They didn't. There were plenty of mistakes to go around. I just want someone to admit to them.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

“People who do you wrong will almost always blame you for it.”
― Maranda Pleasant, Origin: Music, Art, Yoga & Consciousness

“When people take advantage of our generosity, even when we know they’re wrong, their words still sink in a bit. Perhaps it strengthens the narrative from when we were young, that something was wrong with us—thinking it was our fault when clearly it wasn’t, and perhaps even that we’re responsible for the misbehavior of others.


If you were blamed for your own abuse as a kid, or no one ever believed you, these issues can resurface in your adult relationships, and your businesses are not immune.”
― Maranda Pleasant, Origin: Music, Art, Yoga & Consciousness

“The problem was I always took the blame. But he was wrong. But I thought me taking the blame could fix it.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“We hid behind our wounds and threw blame around the moment things got tough.”
― Catharina Maura, The Broken Vows

“Betrayal and blame often go hand in hand because when trust is broken, someone must bear the weight of responsibility. The one who is betrayed feels wronged and instinctively seeks to assign blame, whether to the betrayer or even to themselves. On the other hand, the betrayer may deflect guilt by shifting blame onto circumstances, misunderstandings, or even the victim. In this cycle, blame becomes both a consequence and a weapon, deepening wounds and making reconciliation difficult.”
― Renuka Goria

“Satanists often blame People who are stronger than them to be Satanists.”
― Sino Melo

“He's white and I'm black and I was fightin' him and two-hundred white witnesses can't convince the twelve I'll never see that I didn't kill him.”
― Percival Everett, God's Country

“While grieving I realize my mother brainwashed me into taking responsibility for her problems. Helen Walker routinely blamed me for her suffering. Once she blamed me for a hail storm that killed her tulips. She blamed me for her crippling arthritis at least a thousand times. Another time she screamed about having to get false teeth. "You mean-spirited little brat! You're the reason I had to let that dentist torture me.”
― Pete Walker, HOMESTEADING in the CALM EYE of the STORM: A Therapist Navigates His Complex PTSD