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“Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.”

People Ifs Born Husband Behavior Blame Raised Treated Live Life Fancy Apology Unattractive Born And Raised Earn Respect

Author:Germaine Greer

“One is that we are all responsible for our actions, our behavior, and our words, and we must take responsibility for everything we say and do. I am the architect of my destiny. You can`t blame other people for things that happened to you.”

People Action Responsibility Destiny Happened Behavior Responsible Blame Architect Taking Responsibility Our Actions Our Words My Destiny

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“What's amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus' wife, Penelope, a brilliant, resourceful woman who ends up in a terrible situation: in her husband's absence, she is being held hostage in her own home by men who claim to be courting her. She tries to make them leave, but because she's a woman they refuse, blaming their bad behavior on her desirability.”

“Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.”

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Author:James Redfield

“Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration-a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation's ideals. It did not dawn on them to blame the bad behavior of some Americans on America itself.”

America Nations Behavior Ideals Prejudice Blame Dawn Grandfather My Grandfather Bad Behavior Aberration

Book:Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism

Source: Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism

“Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.”

People Thinking Knows Children Sometimes Whole Parent Know How Behavior Raises Blame Ruins Paradox Learned Behavior

Author:Terry McMillan

“Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.”

People Environment Source Behavior Blame Affected External Environment

Author:Stephen Covey

“I think you can blame certain police officers for certain behavior, you can blame certain departments for certain behavior, and power and so forth, but, ultimately, I'd say it's about us, and it's about society, and I say - even if its sounds a little controversial - put the police aside for a second. It's really not about them. It's about the game that's been created to keep the status quo going and to let the people who own it all gain from the game.”

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Author:Oren Moverman

“What I do believe happens in a lot of these cases is that we somehow want to place blame on the victim for their behavior or that they brought it upon themself. As law enforcement official, you are held to a higher standard. You are expected to execute your job in that regard.”

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Author:Sharon Cooper

“Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.”

Shows Attitude Behavior Shame Blame Disgrace Reproach Disrespectful Disapproval

Author:Joyce Meyer

“I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, it's not the friend, it's not the bad influence, it's not the childhood.”

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Author:Anthony Kiedis