Dean Koontz Quotes

People who lose money always need someone to blame.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.

He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.

Failure is your invention.

You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit.

If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you can't imagine how you could have changed it, that's very difficult for the mind. In some ways, it's more difficult not to be at fault because it's a subtler thing.

When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.

Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.

Criminals are not the victims of society; society is the victim of criminals.

I want to know what he did and who he failed.

… the always unfortunate general is always a culpable one

I know how prone we are to censure and how ready to blame others for the non-fulfillment of our expectations. This is unbecoming in a generous people, and I grieve to see its expression. The general remedy for the want of success in a military commander is his removal. I have been prompted by these reflections more than once since my return from Pennsylvania to propose to Your Excellency the propriety of selecting another commander for this army.

The responsibility for all these acts falls first of all on the deported people.

Failure is almost never at the cost of those responsible.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

Oust me if you want, but if I stepped down, I would be admitting guilt.

The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.

A scapegoat remains effective as long as we believe in its guilt.

If you don't try your hardest, and you're unsuccessful, you always have that excuse.

I definitely feel like I'm the scapegoat for a lot of The Process issues.

I think a lot of the time, when things were going wrong, I would get blamed for things because I was the point guard.