Quotes with blame

  • Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
  • Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
  • If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
  • Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.
  • We always blame other people when things go wrong. For example, family to friends, you think they'll stay by your side, and you realise they never do. But that's life.
  • Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.
  • The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
  • Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
  • You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.
  • The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
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  • Anna Quindlen People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • John Keats Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Robert Anthony When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
    Robert Anthony
    American psychologist and self-help writer
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Ezra Pound A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Allan Carr A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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  • John Burroughs A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Brad Feld A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Casey Stengel All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Bo Bennett An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Dwight Morrow Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
    Dwight Morrow
     
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Blame it on the lies that killed us
    Blame it on the truth that ran us down
    You can blame it all on me, Terry
    It don't matter to me now.
    Born To Run (1975) Backstreets
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Anna Freud Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Laurence J. Peter Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Bertrand Russell Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Aeschylus Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Joy Baluch God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.
    Joy Baluch
    Australian politician (1932 - 2013)
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  • Anita Brookner Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Roland Barthes I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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