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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.
Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Just as we demand that people take responsibility for their actions, we as a society must take responsibility for fighting injustice.
Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.
Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.
We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
I live in a universe in which blame doesn't exist. I don't believe in being at fault; I believe in taking responsibility for your actions. If I do something wrong, I take responsibility for it.