Blame Quotes

“It’s always easier to blame somebody. And once you’ve called someone a witch, then you’d be amazed how many things you can blame her for.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

“A solution is never as easy to find as someone to blame for the problem.”
― James Rozoff

“Maybe it was my imagination, or maybe I wanted someone to blame. I was willing to entertain those possibilities. What I didn't understand was why I couldn't do anything more than stand around in pain.”
― Laura van den Berg, The Isle of Youth: Stories

“Later, she thought, in a moment of terrible clarity, each of us will tell herself the other was the one who pulled the trigger.”
― Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

“When you wrongly blame a person for your misery, you create a fictitious entity that has no connection with that real person, you create a ghost that will possess you and eat you piece by piece.”
― Shunya

“Essential to any form of American business is the blame game. It is never one's own fault - but always the fault of others.”
― Morrissey, Autobiography

“Some excuses are like blaming one’s stutter on winter.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Pointing the finger is often the way that we say that it wasn’t us, when the stuff that we’re holding with the other four fingers says something quite different.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What's wrong between you two?' she said. 'You used to be like peas in a pod.'
I thought about everything I might say, then chose the simplest. 'We're different.'
Cate scoffed at that. 'So are ink and paper, but they get along very well indeed.'
'She's mad at me,' I said.
'Not mad,' Esther said.
'She thinks I'm the reason our daddy got hurt.'
Cate scoffed again. 'You're a girl. You're not a tree.'
'She was in the way,' Esther said.
Cate shook her head. 'Blame comes from the Greek for 'curse.' That's the root of it. A curse. Against the sacred. Which is what sisters are. Or should be. To each other.' She glared at us both. 'Sacred.”
― Lauren Wolk, Echo Mountain

“fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consiences; what purebloods see therein sickens them. So they blame the mirrors." I asked when purebloods might start blaming themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests not until they are made to.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Behavioral trainers never talk about vices and depravity. Behaviorists are some of the most "optimistic' teachers and trainers there are, because if a person or an animal isn't learning, a behaviorist is trained to examine what "he" is doing wrong, not what the person or animal is doing wrong. This means that behavioral teachers and trainers don't blame the student.”
― Temple Grandin, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

“Fate” is how we explain our mistakes.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When you blame others for your circumstances, you surrender control of your future.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“People need someone to hate. And it's easier to see that in others than to find it in themselves. I should know," Kalen added

"I've hated my father nearly all my life”
― Rin Chupeco, The Heart Forger

“i blame your mother
for not building
your self-esteem
and encouraging you
to be a queen

i blame your father
for not loving you enough
to keep you from
searching for a love
in men who couldn’t
love you”
― R.H. Sin, Algedonic

“Accountability is accepting the fact that the soup’s too salty, that there’s only one saltshaker in the kitchen, and that I’m the only one holding it. And an inability to accept any one of these three realities means that I prefer to spend my life blaming others for recipes gone bad because of the way that I handled the ingredients.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The Key to Peace: Stop blaming each other. Do better next time.”
― Signe Knutson, Lovolution 23: Poems and Songs

“Ignorance is the thing that we attribute to everyone else, which is a far greater ignorance than that which we’re accusing everyone else of.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The main barrier to our belief that life can be better is our belief that someone else is supposed to do it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Like superficial spirituality, looking on the bright side of things is a euphemism used for obscuring certain realities of life, the open consideration of which might prove threatening or dangerous to the status quo. Last week I read a letter from a doctor in a medical magazine which said that no truly happy person ever gets cancer. Despite my knowing better, and despite my having dealt with this blame-the-victim thinking for years, for a moment this letter hit my guilt button. Had I really been guilty of the crime of not being happy in this best of all possible infernos?”
― Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

“From Mencius ...

"If, however, dogs and swine eat that food which should be eaten by human beings, without thought being taken to put a stop to this practice, if people starve to death on the public highways, without thought being taken as to how to help them, and if one still says, in the face of the extinction of the population, 'It is not I who am to blame for this, but the bad year'—this is just the same as if one stabs a person to death and says, 'It is not I who did this, but the sword.”
― Richard Wilhelm, Confucius and Confucianism.

“... you can't blame the past for the things that went wrong if you aren't also willing to be thankful for the things that went right.”
― Rachel Hollis, Girl Wash your Face

“Don't blame God for your mess.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Fiction as entertaining my desire to escape fact can pen a truly incredible story, but it can never create anything other than a truly disastrous ending. And as such, escape itself is the fiction.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“But let me ask you this: Where does blame get you? Blame renders you powerless. You must get past blame to become who you are meant to be. And what does shame do to you? Shame only serves to hold you back... It is fine to understand how we got here, but the next breath must contain a resolve to move ahead into a future that looks entirely different, into a destiny that is all yours.”
― Suze Orman, Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny

“Drug knowledge originated mostly with males because they tend to be more venturesome-an outgrowth of male aggression. You've read your Orange Catholic Bible, thus you know the story of Eve and the apple. Here's an interesting fact about that story: Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple. Adam was first and he learned by this to put the blame on Eve.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“When we do something others frown upon, we say “I didn’t mean it” or “I didn’t mean to,” and come up with extenuating causes or reasons for our behavior other than “Yeah, I meant to do that, and I wish I hadn’t gotten caught.”
One way to show yourself that you do often acknowledge other causes of your behavior besides your conscious intent is to appreciate that you invoke just these other causes when you don’t want to take ownership (blame) for your actions. Suddenly, you do believe that your actions can be caused by something other than your conscious intentions. But if you are honest with yourself, you will recognize that this principle should be applied just as much to your positive behaviors as to the ones you’d prefer to disown.”
― John Bargh, Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do

“Great attitudes are not easy to come by. What’s even more annoying is the simple fact that we can’t blame a bad attitude on genetics.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Healthy Thinking Habits: Seven Attitude Skills Simplified

“I’ve yet to see an ad seeking “Professional Victims.” And I immediately thought, “If there are no jobs for people who have honed the skill of being the victim, why are we training so many people for it?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Accepting errors is one of the hallmarks of true humility; while pride shifts blame to somebody or something else.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua