Ovid Quotes

The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.

We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

It is less important to find solutions than scapegoats.

Every executive function, whether superior or subordinate, should be the appointed duty of some given individual. It should be apparent to all the world who did everything, and through whose default anything was left undone. Responsibility is null when nobody knows who is responsible. Nor, even when real, can it be divided without being weakened.

If I've done anything wrong, I believe it's his fault.

Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Aside from the Punic Wars, which I was too young for, I have been blamed for everything.

We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom." It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

I don't blame you for everything, she told me. Just the stuff my friends & I can agree on.

If we really want to know who is responsible for the mess we're in, all we have to do is look in the mirror. You and I own this country, and we are responsible for what happens to it.

Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary

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.

We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

No one is responsible under liberalism.

I'm not one to blame anyone else for anything. And I don't think anyone else should either.

Responsibility cannot be shared.

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

Responsibility is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it. If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.

Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.