Aisha Tyler Quotes

What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

No one is accountable anymore for anything. No one did anything wrong. Well, you're to blame. That's to blame. This is to blame.

When we feel helpless later in life, fear makes us scapegoat others. Instead of fixing the problems, we say, 'Oh, it's all their fault - those women or immigrants are infesting our country.' Rather than useful protest or constructive solutions, we get angry at these handy targets.

We can only make ourselves the victim.

When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell you she did it to herself, but both ways I'd be lying. It was you who did it, Lily. You didn't mean it, but it was you.

Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, "they" don't want me, "they" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, "they" don't deserve me.

They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.

If you complain, you’re ‘playing the victim’; if you don’t complain, you are a victim.

I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you.

And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there would always be someone to blame.

I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.

Poor me, poor me, pour me another.

I was just wondering if you'd come along to hold up my head when my head won't hold on.

When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.

If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one.

Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.

You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control.

Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in.

You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.

I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.