external blame Quotes

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

The devil made me do it.

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

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

Our—Islam’s—problems didn’t start with the dastardly Crusaders. Our problems started with us. To this day, Muslims use the white man as a weapon of mass distraction—a distraction from the fact that we have never needed the “oppressive” West to oppress our own.

I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot.

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

Weak people never admit that they are responsible for their own state. They always blame either circumstances or others.

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies.

Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.

When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in himself, as he should, but outside himself - hence the war with what he does not understand.

Everything people do that doesn’t work has to be somebody else’s fault. Next time you know, geezers’ll be suing the government for getting old and kids’ll be taking their mommies to court because they came out ugly.

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.

It's easy to blame other people when things aren't going well.

The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?