— Herman Cain American writer, businessman and activist 1945
Herman Cain: I’m More Than the ‘Anti-Romney’
2011-10-05
Wall Street Journal
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/10/05/herman-cain-im-more-than-the-anti-romney/
2011-10-07
Regarding the 2011 Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.
„You can blame a wizard for anything and people will believe you.“
— Glen Cook, livro Bleak Seasons
Fonte: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 77 (p. 212)
„You do not blame society. Society is not anyone.“
— Margaret Thatcher British stateswoman and politician 1925 - 2013
TV Interview for Yorkshire Television Woman to Woman (2 October 1985) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105830
Second term as Prime Minister
Contexto: All my upbringing was to instill into both my sister and I a fantastic sense of duty, a great sense of whatever you do you are personally responsible for it. You do not blame society. Society is not anyone. You are personally responsible and just remember that you live among a whole lot of people and you must do things for them, and you must make up your own mind. That was very very strong, very strong. I remember my father sometimes saying to me if I said: “Oh so and so is doing something; can't I do it too?” You know, children do not like to be different. “You make up your own mind what you are going to do, never because someone else is doing it!” and he was always very stern about that. It stood one in good stead.
— Paulo Coelho, livro Aleph
Fonte: Aleph (2011)
Contexto: It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. You can try to stop time, but it’s a complete waste of energy.
„A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.“
— John Burroughs American naturalist and essayist 1837 - 1921
Variante: You can get discouraged many times, but you are not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else and stop trying.
„To govern the state by law is to praise the right and blame the wrong.“
— Han Fei Chinese philosopher -279 - -232 a.C.
from "Having Regulations—A Memorandum" in The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu, Volume I, Arthur Probsthain, London, 1939. Translated by W.K. Liao.
— Joseph Merrick English man with severe deformities 1862 - 1890
This is a rhyme used in Merrick's sideshow pamphlet, and which he is said to have often repeated, and used to sign his letters, followed by a quotation from "False Greatness" by Isaac Watts, first published in Horae Lyricae (1706) Bk. II:
If I could reach from pole to pole
or grasp the ocean with a span,
I would be measured by the soul
The mind's the standard of the Man.
„Do not speak harshly of your misfortunes to anyone, for everyone is partly to blame.“
— Antonio Porchia Italian Argentinian poet 1885 - 1968
No hables mal de tus males a nadie, que hay culpas de tus males en todos.
Voces (1943)
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
As quoted by James Baldwin, “Highroad to Destiny,” a chapter in Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Profile, edited by C. Eric Lincoln, New York, NY, Hill & Wang, 1993, p. 97, (Rev. King speech to a black congregation in St. Louis), reprinted from the February, 1961 issue of Harper’s magazine under the title: “The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King.”
1960s
— Mikhail Kalashnikov Soviet and Russian small arms designer 1919 - 2013
As quoted in "AK-47 Inventor Says Conscience Is Clear" by Joel Roberts at CBS News (6 July 2007) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ak-47-inventor-says-conscience-is-clear/
„Don't blame me," he said, surprised at her reaction. "Blame human nature. I didn't make the world.“
— Robert Cormier, livro Beyond the Chocolate War
Fonte: Beyond the Chocolate War (1985), p. 145
„The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.“
— Scott Adams cartoonist, writer 1957
Fonte: Dilbert's Guide to the Rest of Your Life: Dispatches from Cubicleland
— John McCain politician from the United States 1936 - 2018
1 May 2008; Fox News http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/05/01/candidates-weigh-in-on-5th-anniversary-of-mission-accomplished-banner/
2000s, 2008
— Ben Carson 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon 1951
Fonte: Think Big (1996), p. 50
