The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat. — D. B. Sweeney Copy Share Image
The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats, well here I am. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
“Gets blamed for a lot of things, does the weather. Convenient scapegoat, if you ask me.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
During my first season at Manchester, the team was not performing, and I was the scapegoat. — Marouane Fellaini Copy Share Image
“If I still need someone to calm my anger down, then I surely need a scapegoat who enrages me.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“In a verbally abusive relationship, the partner learns to tolerate abuse without realizing it and to lose self-esteem without realizing it. She… — Patricia Evans Copy Share Image
Bankers were scapegoats for the whole Reagan-Thatcher era, which exalted finance and humbled industry, and which had allowed the fruits of progress… — Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Copy Share Image
Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat,… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
People are upset. They know something is wrong. But they don't know what. The real explanation is too complicated. They won't sit… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
Criticism of a government can, of course, come from those who also have racist intent. We should always be careful not to… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
In most of the countries in the Muslim world today, most of them are autocratic regimes that are unpopular if not detested… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
The battle rages eternal, though the race, religion, gender or sexual orientation of those discriminated against changes regularly. Maybe man’s need for… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When we reject unemployment as an economic instrument as we do and when we reject also superficial remedies, as socialists must, then… — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the… — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Racism was just a tool to deal with frustration and pain and that people are in denial about the way we feel… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
“A text structured by the scapegoat effect cannot make a theme of this; [and in turn] a text that makes a theme… — Scott Cowdell Copy Share Image
“The scapegoat is a central figure in human life. A community that feels threatened identifies groups or individuals responsible for the crisis,… — Yuri Slezkine Copy Share Image
Donald Trump creates scapegoats in Muslims and Mexican immigrants. He calls for the use of torture. He calls for killing the innocent… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“No," Foyle roared. "Let them hear this. Let them hear everything." "You're insane, man. You've handed a loaded gun to children." "Stop… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
“This war ends, then so do the taxpayer-funded contracts, the drumbeats in the media, the nice Combatant faces, and the patriotic cause… — S. J. Kincaid Copy Share Image
“It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone’s malignity. When prices rise, it is due to the profiteer; when wages… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The rite, the becoming-animal of the scapegoat clearly illustrates this: a first expiatory animal is sacrificed, but a second is driven away,… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“Nobody will read what I say here, no one will come to help me; even if all the people were commanded to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“IT was a sad if not an altogether broken young man who came to live in London after Wilde’s death. He could… — Rupert Croft-Cooke Copy Share Image