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;void(0)) BLAME . . . see "FAILURE" for related links When you blame others, you give up your power to change. --Dr. Robert Anthony (1916- ) American motivational writer Placing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character. --Orlando A. Battista (1917- ) Canadian-American chemist and author We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. --George Berkeley (1685-1753) Anglo-Irish philosopher, _A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge_ [1710] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. --Bible, New Testament, John 8:7 Blame is for God and small children. --Ralph Bunche (1904-1971) American political scientist, diplomat, and winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself. --Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist, dramatist, and essayist, _The Fall_, p.81, tr. Justin O'Brien [1956] There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault. --Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) Spanish novelist, _Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [1605-1615] - Balavignus, a Jewish physician, inhabitant of Thonon, was arrested at Chillon, since he had been found in the neighborhood. He was put on the rack for a short time and when taken down confessed after much hesitation that about ten weeks before Rabbi Jacob of Toledo ... sent him by a Jewish boy ... a powder sewn into a thin leather pouch accompanied by a letter, commanding him, on pain of excommunication, and by requiring his obedience to the law, to throw this poison into the larger and more frequented wells of the town of Thonon. --Confession [15 September 1348], in the Castle of Chillon, Savoy, southeast France, by Jews arrested in Neustadt, in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 286 Cohan & Major explain: The blame for the plague was thus attached to the Jews, and Balavignuswas one of ten who confessed 'his design of destroying and extirpating all Christians'. Later centuries would use the word pogrom for just such violent outbreaks of anti-Semitism. - Things that are done, it is needless to speak about. . . things that are past, it is needless to blame. --Confucius (551-479 B.C.) K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher, _The Confucian Analects_ bk. 3:21 Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it--immediately. --Stephen Covey (1932- ) American author This is an old saying, Atula, it is not a saying of today. 'They blame the man who is silent, they blame the man who speaks too much, and they blame the man who speaks too little.' No man can escape blame in the world. --_The Dhammapada_, c 3rdC BC ...And you can't really place blame, 'cuz blame is much too messy. Some is bound to get on you while you're placing it on me. --Ani DiFranco singer, lyricist 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. --Epictetus (55-135) Greek philosopher, _The Encheiridion_, 5, tr. George Long [1890?] Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads. --Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist, _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [February 1734] Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else. --Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English writer and physician, Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_ [1732] It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. --Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) Russian writer, _The Inspector-General_ [1836] The search for someone to blame is always successful. --Robert Half Mister Marvin Middle Class is really in a stew Wond'rin' what the younger generation's coming to And the taste of his martini doesn't please his bitter tongue Blame it on the Rolling Stones. Blame it on the Stones; blame it on the Stones You'll feel so much better, knowing you don't stand alone Join the accusation; save the bleeding nation Get it off your shoulders; blame it on the Stones --Kris Kristofferson (1936- ) Country music singer and songwriter, & Bucky Wilkin, "Blame It On The Stones" What is wrong then? The system. But when you've said that you've said nothing. The system, after all, is only the outcome of the human psyche, the human desires. We shout and blame the machine. But who on earth makes the machine, if we don't? And any alterations in the system are only modifications in the machine. The system is in us, it is not something external to us. The machine is in us, or it would never come out of us. Well then, there's nothing to blame but ourselves, and there's nothing to change except inside ourselves. --D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930) English novelist and poet, _Education of the People_ A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him. --Elmer G. Letterman If a man makes a slip, admonish him gently and show him his mistake. If you fail to convince him, blame yourself, or else blame nobody. --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180) Roman emperor [161-180] and Stoic philosopher, _Meditations_ Book X, Number 4 The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts. He ascribes all his failure to get on in the world, all of his congenital incapacity and damfoolishness, to the machinations of werewolves assembled in Wall Street, or some other such den of infamy. If these villains could be put down, he holds, he would at once become rich, powerful and eminent. Nine politicians out of every ten, of whatever party, live and have their being by promising to perform this putting down. In brief, they are knaves who maintain themselves by preying on the idiotic vanities and pathetic hopes of half-wits. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist and literary critic, Baltimore "Evening Sun" [15 June 1936] One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license. --P.J. O'Rourke (1947- ) American political satirist Don't let yourself be victimized by the age you live in. It's not the times that will bring us down, any more than it's society. When you put blame on the society, then you end up turning to society for the solution. Just like those poor neurotics at the Care Fest. There's a tendency today to absolve individuals of moral responsibility and tread them as victims of social circumstance. You buy that, you pay with your soul. It's not men who limit women, it's not straights who limit gays, it's not whites who limit blacks. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the f*cking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it. --Tom Robbins (1936- ) American author, _Still Life with Woodpecker_ When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. --George Santayana (1863-1952) Spanish-born philosopher and critic. Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. --Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) American critic and author _The Liberal Imagination_ [1950] There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. --Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet - He who accuses too many, accuses himself. --anon. adage: when you point a finger at someone your remaining fingers are pointing at you. People in our culture have a morbid tendency to avoid blame, because they do not wish to take the trouble to change their conduct in any way: blame-avoidance and blame-transference are therefore endemic amongst us. These are substitutes for repentance and renewal. --Behavior Research Project (Texas). 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