Emilio E. Massera Quotes

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it.

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

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

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

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

Did I kill anyone?

...Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn't his fault).

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

I have done nothing wrong.

Blame is for God and small children.

There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.

I did not do anything wrong as a governor, even if you accept the verdict as it is, it doesn't indicate that.

I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.

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.

It's better to choose the culprits than to seek them out.

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

Institutions can eventually overcome all the legal barriers erected to shield perpetrators of crimes against humanity Justice was finally done where it needed to be done – in Argentina itself.

If crimes have been committed it is necessary to investigate. They say that the number of victims have been exaggerated, but one case is enough. Cain slew Abel only once. Christ only once was crucified.

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

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?

One of the strongest forms of rhetoric in our society is the rhetoric of blame.