Terry Pratchett Quotes

Things like the movie 'Memento' are interesting to me because our memories of the things we've done and how we've behaved form our notion of who we are, what our character is. So if part of that were missing, what does that actually say about you? And what does it say about your sense of responsibility for things if you can't remember them?

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

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. Adults realise, however, that few among us are purely innocent or utterly blameless.

Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.

Was it someone else? Was it not you yourself?

Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.

it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove

Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame.

You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

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

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.