What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
Neither blame or praise yourself.
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.