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Blame Quotes

Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions.

He's [Jerome Powell] a terrible Fed chair. I was surprised he was appointed. I was surprised, frankly, that Biden put him in and extended him.

I think the good parts are the 'Trump economy' and the bad parts are the 'Biden economy' because he's done a terrible job.... I was able to get down the costs. But even that, it takes a while to get them down. But we got them down good.

I'm not taking credit or discredit for the stock market. I'm just saying we inherited a mess.... We came in on Jan. 20, so this is Biden. And you can even say the next quarter is, sort of, Biden, because it doesn't just happen on a daily or an hourly basis, but we're turning it around. It's a big ship to turn around.

No, I don't take responsibility at all, because we were given a set of circumstances and we were given rules, regulations and specifications from a different time.

When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. 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.

Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments; not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience.

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

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.

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

It is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.

They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed.

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

Do not blame the food because you have no appetite.

I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them.