#lame

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. ↗

— Titus Livius

#clever #men #only #others #own

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#beautiful #called #celebrate #flame #flower

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#adequately #africa #blame #cannot #economy

It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#america #appears #blame #central #correct

During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it's squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#conservative #democratic #deserve #during #flames

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#american way #big #blame #bound #everything

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

— Don Marquis

#else #feel #luxury #ourselves #right

I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#courage #else #fear #i #leaders

History is the story of events, with praise or blame. ↗

— Cotton Mather

#events #history #praise #story

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance. ↗

— John McCarthy

#advance #blame #countries #course #failure