Blame Quotes

Our landings … have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops …. The troops, the air, and the navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

People always suffer for what governments have done.

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

I didn't shoot anybody, no sir . . . I'm just a patsy.

A fool always accuses other people; a partially wise man himself; a wholly wise man, neither himself nor others.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.

Criminals are not the victims of society; society is the victim of criminals.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

Victory finds a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable.

I don't create hate.

We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

The Italian people are cowards.