Blame Shifting Quotes

Goyim kill goyim and the Jews are blamed.

It’s not the man; it’s the plan.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

The way they control a population is by pointing at somebody else - whether they're gay, Mexican, Jewish, black - and saying, 'They are different than you. They're the reason you're in the shape you're in. You're not responsible.' And when they exonerate you through vilifying and demonizing someone else, they control you.

The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace — not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our own failures.

Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen.

The devil made me do it.

When they say I'm a bad teammate and that I got a coach fired, that irritates the hell out of me. The biggest thing for me is to always have respect for my teammates. And then the whole Westphal thing - the man got himself fired. He was losing before I got here.

I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

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

The government and the Party are always blaming the comrades doing local work but never themselves, always seeing their own achievements but never their own shortcomings, and always welcoming flattery but never criticism....

The question is not what the Germans did to the Jews, but what the Jews did to the Germans.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

If you say something in advance - if you describe a problem as it arises, people always turn on you because they don't want to hear about it. But when it's too late to do anything, they will then turn around and say that you were right. That's human nature.

Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.