Lionel Shriver Quotes

If I've done anything wrong, I believe it's his fault.

It's easy to blame other people when things aren't going well.

That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.

What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!

Poor people choose to play the role of the victim.

Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.

Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

The devil made me do it.

People are very apt to shift the Blame off themselves, and lay it upon others, when perhaps they themselves are as much or more to blame. The popular Cry is against Merchants and Traders, as if they had ruined the Country; or against those who are or have been in the Government

What you find when you live in the United States, you live in the West, is that when somebody fails, it's never their fault. They always like to blame somebody other than themselves for a failure.

People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.

You cannot blame everything on the enemy.

There's no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.

A lot of people do want to be victims. It's easy. It's an excuse for not doing anything and an excuse for failing. Being a victim means somebody else is responsible for everything going wrong in your life. So Democrats love plugging as many people as they can into victim status.

There’s no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It’s always someone else’s fault. Usually people just blame the victim.

If you're a victim, you're always mad, but never at yourself. You're mad at somebody else.

The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

I hate it when people blame someone else and don't take responsibility.

The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.

Weak people never admit that they are responsible for their own state. They always blame either circumstances or others.