““You can hardly blame them.”
“Assuming stupidity is an inherited trait, then no, I can’t.””

“There are some people so stupid you have to show them everything. I didn’t realize that there are people so stupid you can’t show them anything.”

“He’ll always be innocent, you can’t blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.”

“Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. … Why can’t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?”

“Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.”

“I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them!”

“I am inclined to regard the separation of parental traits in the progeny of hybrids in Pisum as complete and thus permanent. The progeny of hybrids carries one or the other of the parental traits, or the hybrid form of the two; I have never observed gradual transitions between the parental traits or a progressive approach towards one of them. The course of development consists simply in this; that in each generation the two parental traits appear, separated and unchanged, and there is nothing to indicate that one of them has either inherited or taken over anything from the other”

“I’m not stupid, nor a liar,” I said, “and if I can’t do any good, I can at least do something”

“I know they can’t help being young, but isn’t there something they can do about being so stupid?”

“You can’t blame someone if they honestly don’t understand that their reality isn’t the same as yours.”