Blame Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Remember praise is more valuable than blame.

— George S. Patton

To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of…

— Samuel Johnson

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are…

— Thucydides

Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Blame is safer than praise

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and so the redemption they're…

— Anonymous

Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and…

— Virginia Woolf

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more…

— Friedrich Nietzsche