Collective Blame Quotes

It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.

You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense.

One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.

I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance.

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

When everybody is supposed to pay, nobody seems to get the bill.

I don't blame you for everything, she told me. Just the stuff my friends & I can agree on.

All players have equal duties and merits and share the reward and sometimes the blame.

Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

I'm all for holding each other accountable, but it feels as if we're hurling toward a society of finger-pointers, because we don't hold ourselves accountable for anything.

The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

Our fans have been branded with the same brush.

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

No member of any 'grouping' should be judged by the activity of some other individual in that same grouping.

Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits are to blame for [Jeremy] Corbyn.

In the Matrix in which Americans live, nothing is ever their fault.

The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.

That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.

Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.

I do not believe in collective guilt.

You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of the system - escape the collective stigma that is placed upon all Negroes in this country?

In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.

Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent.