Blame Quotes

In 2006, Yahoo wanted to buy the company for a billion dollars and everyone on our management team wanted to sell it and the board tried to fire me and basically in the next year, everyone else on the management team left because I hadn't done a good job communicating. I don't want to blame them. I hadn't done a good job communicating the long-term vision because I didn't, I wasn't thinking about that at the time.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Instead of resolving the problems of the poor and thinking of how the world can be different, some can only propose a reduction in the birth rate. ... To blame population growth instead of extreme and selective consumerism on the part of some, is one way of refusing to face the issues.

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.