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are no innocents in this film. Each of the characters is in turn
a victim and also a perpetrator of abuse of various kinds. Each
is morally culpable for some of the evil that befalls others and
themselves. But in each character we see them blaming others without
being willing to accept their own share of the blame. Their actions,
whether sexual abuse, blackmail, or murder, are really based in
striving for power over others. Each is retaliating for actions
others have done in asserting their power. That striving for power
is the foundation for much of the way people injure one another.
Bad Education shows us how the struggle for power can bring ruin
into many lives.
--Darrel Manson
ON
BLAMING
I
envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything
on.
--Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
Blame
someone else and get on with your life.
--Alan Woods
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the
man who will get the blame.
--Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
--Robert Orben
I
do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all
things. I am the centre of the world.
--W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself,
tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
--Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the
wind for revealing them to the trees.
--Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand
up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts
of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he
never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart:
mark and avoid him.
--Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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