It was very handy to have such a foreign scapegoat when so…

Putting a family member in jail is a good sign there is something seriously wrong in the home.

— Ricki Lake

“If your mother lived your life as though it were her own-never allowing you a moment of stress or frustration, routinely sleeping in your…

— Victoria Secunda

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

— Michael Lewis

Teachers were both blamed for everything that went wrong with kids and turned to for their every salvation. This dual role of scapegoat and…

— Anonymous

Criticism of a government can, of course, come from those who also have racist intent. We should always be careful not to scapegoat people…

— Mary Katharine Ham

“Perfectionist parents seem to operate under the illusion that if they can just get their children to be perfect, they will be a perfect…

— Susan Forward Ph.D

“In fact, the most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star…

— John Bradshaw

During my first season at Manchester, the team was not performing, and I was the scapegoat.

— Marouane Fellaini

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over…

— Conrad Black

“Narcissistic Parents often enlist other family members on their side, causing rifts and building alliances against a “bad” child. In other words, they may…

— Joseph Burgo

Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has tried to…

— Thomas Sowell

If you scapegoat someone, it's a third party that will be aware of it. It won't be you. Because you will believe you are…

— Rene Girard

But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly…

— Yaron Brook

“I don't have sympathy for people who wrap themselves in injury caused by their inability to deal with personal inadequacies and refusal to learn…

— Nikki Mills

They change scapegoats at the networks more regularly than some people change socks.

— Harlan Ellison