Homer Quotes

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.

If you don't do your part, don't blame God.

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

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.

If someone was born the way she was born, are you going to blame him, or are you going to blame God? Whose fault is that? Nobody's.

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

Nobody becomes guilty by fate.

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

Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.

God's 'failures' are really man's failures.

If any man err from the right way, it is his own misfortune, no injury to thee; nor therefore art thou to punish him in the things of this life because thou supposest he will be miserable in that which is to come.

Adam must have an Eve, to blame for what he has done.

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

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

Most of the women in Greek tragedies have their fates predetermined. The gods dictate that such and such will happen to them, and everything they predict comes true. Not Medea.

All sin and all crime comes from the same thing: 'I decided. I decided this was okay.'

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

Is God to blame for what I myself have done?

There exists in our society widespread fear of judging…[B]ehind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence doubt that anyone is responsible or could be expected to answer for what he has done…Who has ever maintained that by judging a wrong I presuppose that I myself would be incapable of committing it?

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

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

Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.