„Certainly inside my heart I know degrees of difference. But I can’t blame any of these men who share a common fate with me. The big folly of this trial is that it lacks the two men who are to blame for anything which is criminal, namely Hitler and Himmler.“

— Karl Dönitz

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„See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.“
— Homér
„Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs that produce the men. I have never searched, and I have always found under my hand the men who have served me, and for the most part I have been well served.“
— Catherine the Great
„People usually blame themselves or “fate.”“
— Jacque Fresco
„Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.“
— Jodi Picoult
„Men are so quick to blame the gods: they saythat we devise their misery. But theythemselves- in their depravity- designgrief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.“
— Homér
„It is the coward and the fool who says, This is my fate – so says the Sanskrit proverb. But it is the strong man who stands up and says, I will make my own fate. It is people who are getting old who talk of fate. Young men generally do not come to astrology.“
— Swami Vivekananda