Blame Quote by Roland Barthes

“I call the discourse of power any discourse which engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. Some expect of us as intellectuals that we…

— Roland Barthes

One of the strongest forms of rhetoric in our society is the rhetoric of blame.

— Kenneth Frazier

“Where lies the power, there let the blame lie too." Nay, power is relative; you cannot fright The coming pest with border fortresses, Or…

— George Eliot

“Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“When you blame others, you are affirming that you have no power, and your existence is only a reaction to the power of others.”

— Bryant McGill

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

— Robin Morgan

Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.

— Veronica Roth

Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and…

— L. Ron Hubbard

To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us.

— Stephen Covey

Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and…

— Nicholas Trist