Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.
Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.
The truth is that not yet usually means never. Trying to run away from the responsibility to decide about Christ is childish. Pilate sought to refuse responsibility for deciding about Christ, but Pilate's hands were never dirtier than just after he had washed them.
Weak people never admit that they are responsible for their own state. They always blame either circumstances or others.
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement.
When I wasn't working, I put the blame directly where it belonged - I blamed my agent. When I didn't have an agent, I spent time looking for a new agent so I would have somebody to blame.
if you think that by killing men you can avoid the accuser censoring your lives, you are mistaken; that is not a way of escape which is either possible or honorable; the easiest and the noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.
Senator Gillibrand is good at saying things that sound nice but have little substance. I don't think we elect our public officials to avoid taking a stand or a difficult position on anything.
Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.
Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.
A loser is someone who makes excuses and alibis and blames everyone else for their losses and failures.
People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.
Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.
It is human natures to find scapegoats. When things are going badly people try and find someone to blame.
It's an old Washington tradition to dodge and weave when you're under interrogation.
All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.
It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.
I got really bad grades, so I'd hide my report card from my dad. My mom was in on it, too, because she knew he'd be furious. I probably would've gone to boot camp. Seriously.
A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.
When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.
It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility.
'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
Nationalization would likely mean wiping out the big banks' managements and shareholders. It's because that reckoning has mostly been avoided so far that those bankers may be the Americans in the greatest denial of all.
