“We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"” ShouldFirstsCenturyBlameTrackFinished21st CenturyRight Track Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995
“It's the age old thing: If you want to get elected, blame immigrants. It worked in the 20th century and it works now, and it's heart-breaking to see people make the same mistakes. They're looking at a complicated world, but they just keep blaming immigrants, and it's really disturbing that people haven't got past that.” PeopleIfsWorldWantHeartAgePastMistakeCenturyHavensBlameComplicatedImmigrants20th CenturyDisturbingSame MistakesOld ThingsHeart BreakingComplicated World Author:Moby
“Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and those who leave and yearn for her and blame her with bitterness for driving them away.” ChildrenDreamMotherCenturyCivilizationBlameComplainingDrivingBitternessEgypt Book:The Map of Love Source: The Map of Love
“Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.” PeopleFirstsHumansIdeasNaturalFreedomRightsAdviceCenturyExpressionCostRespectRegardBlameTendenciesPreservesDisagreeDictatorGuardianBeginning Author:Gerard K. O'Neill
“A long time ago I learned not to put the blame for backwardness in Brazil on the US. We have to blame ourselves. Our backwardness is caused by an elite which for a century didn't think about the majority and subordinated itself to foreign interests.” ThinkingLongInterestCenturyLong TimeBlameMajorityElitesLong Time AgoBrazil Author:Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
“The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may give buoyancy to the soul. In many families, there are hurt feelings and a reluctance to forgive. It doesn’t really matter what the issue was. It cannot and should not be left to injure. Blame keeps wounds open. Only forgiveness heals. George Herbert, an early 17th-century poet, wrote these lines: ‘He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven, for everyone has need of forgiveness.’” IfsNeedsGivingShouldMaySoulMatterFeelingsSpiritLeftStrongHeavenHurtLinesBreakIssuesCenturyPoetBlameForgivingWoundsHealLiftsBridgesHurt FeelingsReluctance17th CenturyBuoyancy Author:Thomas S. Monson
“It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. Militant Islam is the problem, but moderate Islam is the solution.” ShouldProblemEvilMistakeCenturySolutionsBlameIslamIdeologyModeratesMilitant Author:Daniel Pipes