responsibility shifting Quotes

It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

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

How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

People will look at Bowyer and Woodgate and say 'Well, there's no mud without flames'.

I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you.

It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they never realize that they do not eliminate these consequences but merely pass them along to other people? The result is one injustice the more and one moral the less.

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.

If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

It is human natures to find scapegoats. When things are going badly people try and find someone to blame.

Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.

When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.

How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and would rarely look beyond the thinnest of facades. Or they would ignore reality, dismissing it as the facade. And then, when their whole world fell to pieces...they would tear their topknots or rend their clothes and bewail their karma, blaming gods or kami or luck or their lords or husbands or vassals-anything or anyone-but never themselves.

Now, some have said I blame too many problems on my predecessor, but let's not forget that's a practice that was initiated by George W. Bush.

I don't make mistakes. I bury them.

If you're going to kill yourself just do me one favor: say it was because of my act. Can you do that? I need the press.