Samuel Smiles Quotes

We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.

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

Are those making these charges better equipped to deal with the Ebola threat than those they castigate? These easy charges, nurtured in hindsight, by people by people who have never had to make decisions or have responsibilities in the matter, play into the national penchant for finger-pointing and feed panic.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

It is less important to find solutions than scapegoats.

Those who do not prevent crimes when they could, encourage them.

Capt. Gordon is as responsible for the death of those on the Erie. As if he had taken the life of each by his own hand. For once, when no doubt exists as to guilt, a terrible example should be made.

I find it very frustrating how much passing the buck there is in the criminal justice system when it comes to taking responsibility for outcomes.

All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.

I hate it when people blame someone else and don't take responsibility.

The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.

Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.

The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something

Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.

I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.

Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn't turn it on.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate - are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.

A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.