“Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?” WorldGivingHeartDoeRunningAbleSpiritualHumanityAsksWaterSimplePoorCompassionMoralCuttingEconomicExampleBrokenAmountDemandEatingMassIndiaBlameDistanceCancerOilMusclesFarmersConsumerismBleedingPumpsOverconsumptionGasolineGallons Author:Richard J. Foster
“I have never yet had anyone who could, through the use of logic and reason, justify the Federal Government borrowing the use of its own money. I believe the time will come when people will demand that this be changed. I believe the time will come in this country when they will actually blame you and me and everyone else connected with the Congress for sitting idly by and permitting such an idiotic system to continue.” PeopleBelieveCountryReasonUseGovernmentI BelieveChangedDemandSittingLogicBlameCongressConnectedJustifyFederal GovernmentBorrowingIdiotic Author:Wright Patman
“When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?” WorldRunningWaterSimplePoorDemandIndiaBlameFarmersConsumerismPumpsOverconsumptionGasolineGallons Author:Richard J. Foster
“People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.” PeopleIdeasSoulReasonSufferingBitsLinesExistenceStepsEnemyCareersAudienceDemandBlameSuicideGuiltFingersEndureArguingSelfishSelfishnessCowardiceSparesImpressAssaultSoul SearchingCowardlyFiberFamily FriendsFriends And EnemiesRight Ideas Author:David Mitchell
“Unconditional love is like a contry of two with no laws and no government. Which is all fine if everyone is peaceful and law abiding. In the wrong hands, though, you got looting and crime sprees, and let me tell you, the people who demand unconditional love are usually the ones who will rob and pillage and then blame you because you left your door unlocked.” PeopleIfsTwoHandsGovernmentLawLeftLove IsDoorsCrimeFineDemandLet MeBlamePeacefulUnconditional LoveUnconditionalAbidingLove Is LikeLooting Book:The Secret Life of Prince Charming Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming
“The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.” IfsWorldWellsFeelingsMightChoicesMistakeStupidInformationIgnoranceDemandResponsibleBlameStupidityMy MistakesGood Choices Author:Lois McMaster Bujold
“If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He goes out and creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes. He's a pretty poor excuse for a Supreme Being.” IfsHumansProblemPoorMistakeDemandWorshipBlameSevenAtheistExcuseSupremePsychologicalInsecureImpressiveSeven DaysSupreme BeingVery ImpressivePsychological Problems Book:Great Birds of the Galaxy Source: Great Birds of the Galaxy
“I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them! (14th February 1945)” IfsMadeWarNationsCasesOughtDemandBlameBritishAcceptedAllowingInitiativeFebruaryMunichBlame Me Author:Adolf Hitler
“Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen.” PeopleNeedsCountryUseAmericaNationsLibertyTroubleGroupsEconomicMovementDemandEconomicsBlameLibertarianRussiaGermanyMinoritiesSovietJustificationDictatorshipNaziBusinessmanBourgeoisieNazi GermanyScapegoatSoviet RussiaMinority Groups Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.” ThinkingWayShouldTryingBelieveHelpingI BelieveGrowthCompanyFailingDemandModelsDeserveCapitalismResourcesDestructionBlameAcceptedEndlessDestruction Of Nature Author:Yvon Chouinard
“Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.” IfsNeedsDoeEndsOpportunityMistakeMastersDemandBlameObligationBlame Someone Author:Laozi
“We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.” LoveNeedsShouldCommonJudgingPerspectiveDemandDaughterPerfectionBlameRageTinyCommon SenseGod LoveMy DaughterAfternoonShould IGod's LoveCorrectionsGod Loves Me Author:Susan L. Taylor
“You complain and demand zero compromise - so the GOP obstructs Obama so the economy doesn't improve - then you complain and demand even more zero compromise. Then you get to blame Obama for the slow recovery, which is sorta like John Wilkes Booth blaming Lincoln for missing the end of a play.” EndsPlayEconomyMissingDemandBlameComplainingRecoveryCompromiseZeroGopJohn Wilkes Booth Author:John Fugelsang
“Why, in our culture, do so many discussions of male/female roles seem so painful, unfair, unreal, unfunny, and even preposterous? Because of men who demand submission from their wives but in turn submit themselves to no one, including God … We cannot blame women for being frustrated because they fear the injustice of being under headship that itself is not accountable.” MenSeemsTurnsCultureRolesWifeDemandFemaleBlameMalesIncludingInjusticePainfulDiscussionSubmitFrustratedUnfairSubmissionUnrealMale FemaleFemale RolesBeing FrustratedHeadship Author:Stu Weber