“Humans just make excuses to not blame themselves”

“The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.”

“The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves”

“The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed”

“Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact how hard money is to come by, and, there, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.”

“Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.”