Don Marquis Quotes

Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.

I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Drunkenness excuseth no vice.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

We all have excuses. We could all take all of the things that have happened to us over the course of our lives and use them as excuses for being cruel to others.

You can't just blame things on evil. Everyone's a human, so when people say that somebody's behaving 'inhuman,' it's not. It's very human - it's just not a very nice side of it.

The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste.

The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

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

There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsibility for his situation somewhere other than on his own decisions.

Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

If I go to hell, then heavens to blame

There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.

God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.