Shifting Blame Quotes

Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

When I wasn't working, I put the blame directly where it belonged - I blamed my agent. When I didn't have an agent, I spent time looking for a new agent so I would have somebody to blame.

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement.

Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame - illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.

More excuses for more failures.

Everything people do that doesn’t work has to be somebody else’s fault. Next time you know, geezers’ll be suing the government for getting old and kids’ll be taking their mommies to court because they came out ugly.

It is hard to overstate how over time the idea of being at fault for one’s actions has been explicitly diminished as a personal and legal norm, such that many people today have no recognition of being at fault for anything.

Adam must have an Eve, to blame for what he has done.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

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

When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.

Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

When the Department does respond to telegrams it is invariably to recommend evasion of issues that cannot be evaded.

The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.

I was talking to my friend and he said his girlfriend was mad at him. I said, "What happened?" He goes: "Well, I guess I, uh... I guess I said something, and, uh... and then she got her feelings hurt." That's a weird way to phrase it: "She got her feelings hurt. I said something, and then she..." Could you more remove yourself from responsibility? "She got her feelings hurt." It's like saying, "Yeah, I shot this guy in the face, and then I guess he got himself murdered. I don't know what happened. He leaned into it."

How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.

Players often look for alibis - it's easy to give the blame to others.

A creator always needs excuses.

An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.

One of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others.

Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.

No one is accountable anymore for anything. No one did anything wrong. Well, you're to blame. That's to blame. This is to blame.

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

Blaming others is excusing yourself.