Blame

Blame is the act of censuring, holding responsible, making negative statements about an individual or group that their action or actions are socially or morally irresponsible, the opposite of praise.

Quotes

• In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.
  • Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 90

• ὢ πόποι, οἷον δή νυ θεοὺς βροτοὶ αἰτιόωνται.
  ἐξ ἡμέων γάρ φασι κάκ' ἔμμεναι· οἱ δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ
  σφῇσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὑπὲρ μόρον ἄλγε' ἔχουσιν.
  • See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
  • Homer, Odyssey (c. 725 BC), I. 32–34 (tr. Samuel Butler).

• Now there's no point in placing the blame
  And you should know I'd suffer the same
  • Madonna, Frozen (February 23, 1998) from the album Ray of Light (March 3, 1998)

• If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
  • Rainer Maria Rilke (Date of death)

• There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ouselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
  • Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter 8.

See also

• Guilt
• Responsibility