“Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
“If it is your fault that your mother is miserable, it becomes a potentially fixable affront. Taking blame means that at least… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern… — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image
This traditionally happens in Russia and in every other undemocratic country as well - the quest for a scapegoat won't be long,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“To blame me in the past is a very future me thing to do. But what am I supposed to do, scapegoat… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
In times of economic distress, it's only natural for people - and Americans have done this for many years - to look… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“I am completely in agreement with you that Christ is no longer—in the Gospels—an unrevealed scapegoat. It’s the opposite: now he is… — Scott Cowdell Copy Share Image
There is a line in which populism can cross over into demagoguery. Demagoguery is the crossover where populism becomes a bad thing,… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call… — Yaron Brook Copy Share Image
Blaming the imperialists nowadays is obviously absurd, as is blaming the Americans, who obviously don't have the slightest desire to control anything… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
“But the christian story of God the Father putting his son to death, or employing people to do it, (for that is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any… — Monica Lewinsky Copy Share Image
We need autocracies and failing democracies alike to understand that they cannot scapegoat LGBT citizens to distract from their own shortcomings. — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
All the themes of incipient fascism are present, to some degree, in our present-day political culture: the fear of the Other, the… — Justin Raimondo Copy Share Image
I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague,… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Teachers were both blamed for everything that went wrong with kids and turned to for their every salvation. This dual role of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
“As Peggy snored beside him, Tom pondered the Greek and Hebrew legends of the scapegoat. Pharmakos to the Greeks, Azazel to the… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“You have to conclude that your country has run amuck, that the people responsible are insane, that you can not trust your… — James Drought Copy Share Image
“Many daughters live out their lives avoiding or abiding or arguing with their mothers-burying the long-ago injury or insult or childhood deprivation… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I love Twitter. It doesn't keep me from writing and I think it's a really convenient scapegoat when the truth is that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have… — Alison Roberta Noble Neilans Copy Share Image
The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“And when I read one of those scapegoat pieces about the "viciousness" of drug pushers, and extolling the basic humanitarianism of the… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“Narcissistic Parents often enlist other family members on their side, causing rifts and building alliances against a “bad” child. In other words,… — Joseph Burgo Copy Share Image
“If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person can take… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
