Moral Blame Quotes

The world has gone back a half a millennium in its conduct of international relations in time of war…. no nation has to bear a greater blame for this than our own ….As for Hiroshima and Nagasaki, some of us think it was shameful. Are we Christians? We act like pagans.

When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same in the end.

I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.

Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, shamelessness, envy, and, of actions, adultery, theft, murder. All these and similar actions and feelings are blamed as being bad in themselves; it is not the excess or deficiency of them that we blame. It is impossible therefore ever to go right in regard to them - one must always be wrong.

Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.'

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!

Do you blame a vulture for perching over a carcass?

Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.

Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.

Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.

With regard to what is done in drunkenness, this state, voluntarily contracted, does not hinder the imputation of a bad action.

At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint occaecati cupiditate non provident, similique sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga.

People have the wrong idea that God will forgive Reagan. They say he didn't know what he was doing. It's true he didn't know a lot of what was going on, but he was directly responsible.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

The United States Government has blood on its hands.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.

I didn’t create poverty. This church didn’t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind.

A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.

I believe that in your heart you already know something is profoundly wrong. When bartenders are responsible for drunk drivers' acts, and gunmakers are responsible for criminals' acts, and nobody is responsible for O. J. Simpson's acts, something is wrong.