#blame

I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff. ↗

— Shane Warne

#blame #choices #couple #else #fault

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles. ↗

— Simone Weil

#blame #encourage #fear #kill #killers

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions! ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#come #competing #defeat #experience #forces

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#action #blame #cause #created #effect

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#else #feel #luxury #ourselves #right

I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people. ↗

— Prince William

#actions #blame #decision #i #i think

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#ego #fiction #gets #person #social

If I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#blame #complain #i #jam #myself

There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#around #belongs #blame #bubble #causing

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#reveal #revealing #secrets #should #them