Blame Quotes - Page 35

• Paul Ryan looks around, sees three unemployed workers for every job opening in America, and blames the people who can't find a job.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Jobs, America, People

  "Elizabeth Warren Picks A Fight With Paul Ryan" By Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2014.

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• People have a bad habit of blaming the victims. Damn Jews! If hadn't been for them the Nazis wouldn't have exterminated 'em all!

  Ward Churchill

  People, Ems, Nazi

  "Pacifism and Pathology in the American Left". Ward Churchill's Speech in Oakland, California, November 16, 2001.

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• Tis true, my form is something odd
  but blaming me, is blaming God,
  Could I create myself anew
  I would not fail in pleasing you.

  Joseph Merrick

  Odd, Form, Elephant Man

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• I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull. As I advance deeper into the vale of years, I live with constantly increasing gusto and excitement. I am sure it all means something; in the last analysis, I am an optimist because I believe in God. Those who have no faith are quite naturally pessimists and I do not blame them.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Life, Believe, Mean

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• 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

  Stupid, People, United States

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• It’s…it’s easy to have some little bitty website and use a fake name and sit there and…you know…talk bad about Jews all day and enjoy yourselves…uh, you know…getting your kicks ’cause you live in, you know…a…a one room apartment and your mad at life or whatever and wanna blame us…you know.

  Alex Jones

  Names, Mad, Fake

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• In the New World, you'll kick your own ass and I'll wash my own brain. I'll be my own parents and you'll be you own wife. And vise versa. That'll be normal in the New World - different from the Old World, where everyone except me is to blame for my ignorance and you call on everyone except yourself to give you what you need. I'll push my own buttons and right my own wrongs. You'll wake yourself up and sing your won songs.

  Rob Brezsny

  Song, Ignorance, Giving

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• Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such,
  We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much;
  Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind,
  And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Party, Mind

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• There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker John Boehner.

  Chris Christie

  House, Suffering, Majority

  "Christie lambasts House Republicans over Sandy bill: 'Shame on Congress'" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2013.

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• I do feel I was overshadowed by some of those guys (who took steroids) . . . I had a diminished-skills clause written in after I hit 29 home runs and drove in 92 RBIs, and I think those (steroid-aided home run hitters) are partly to blame.

  Frank Thomas

  Running, Home, Thinking

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• The draft is a monstrous violation of individual liberty, and even a good motive cannot make it otherwise. In a free society no one should be compelled to take up arms, or be forced to kill or risk being killed... But who can blame prospective volunteers from doubting that there is a threat from Iraq? The Bush administration has yet to make a persuasive argument to that effect.

  Sheldon Richman

  Iraq, Volunteer, Risk

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• Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy

  Tom Robbins

  Loner, Attention, Way

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• A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Bankers, Sound, Investing

  "The Consequences to the Banks of the Collapse of Money Values" (1931)

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• We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?

  Jack Kornfield

  Struggle, Heart, Self

  Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.162, Random House

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• If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.

  Peter King

  Military, Civilians, Ifs

  "For Lawmaker Examining Terror, a Pro-I.R.A. Past" by Scott Shane, www.nytimes.com. March 8, 2011.

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• As I was walking in the fields, the thought came over me with almost overwhelming power, that every one of my flock must soon be in heaven or hell. Oh how I wished that I had a tongue like thunder, that I might make all hear; or that I had a frame like iron, that I might visit every one and say, Escape for thy life! Ah sinner! You little know how I fear that you will lay the blame of your damnation at my door.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Doors, Iron, Heaven

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1874). “Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee”

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• Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Men, Gun, Focus

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• 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

  Real, Leader, Blame Someone

  Susana Martinez RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not rather reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat for going bad. It cannot do anything else. The real question to ask is: Where is the salt?

  John Stott

  Christian, Real, Hands

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• I don't watch football anymore, I gave that up. I got tired of the interviews after the games, because the winning players always give credit to God, and the losers blame themselves. You know, just once I'd like to hear a player say, 'Yeah, we were in the game, until Jesus made me fumble. He hates our team.'

  Jeff Stilson

  Football, Jesus, Hate

  "Comedy Central Presents: Jeff Stilson". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.

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• I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.

  Theresa May

  Tired, Government, People

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• Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.

  Caroline Myss

  Recovery, Loss, Choices

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• I don't blame Bill Maher for mocking religion. I can see why he took the trouble to make the movie. In one sense, it's overdue.

  Ray Comfort

  Bills, Trouble, Overdue

  "Bill Maher's Movie Mockery May Backfire". Christian Broadcasting Network, October 2, 2008.

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• I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.

  Fidel Castro

  Thinking, Jew, Has Beens

  "Fidel Castro accuses Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of antisemitism" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2010.

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• You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

  Paul Hawken

  Healing, Dark, Light

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