scapegoat, n. I think our top two are: 1. Not enough coffee. 2. Too much coffee. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Another reason it's dangerous to acknowledge that you were unloved is that it implies the possibility that your mother may have been… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“The immigrants they liked to hire to get work done cheap, then use them for every scapegoat situation possible, forgetting they wouldn’t… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking people. In the case of the Republican Party,… — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga… It’s… — Bikram Choudhury Copy Share Image
“I don't have sympathy for people who wrap themselves in injury caused by their inability to deal with personal inadequacies and refusal… — Nikki Mills Copy Share Image
Each person must ask what his relationship is to the scapegoat. I am not aware of my own, and I am persuaded… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons anti-immigration state laws start to happen is they happen in states where there is an enormous… — Rilla Askew Copy Share Image
A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism.… — Robert A. Heinlein 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
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
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
The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
“marriage is not really a combination of two persons; rather it is the product of two families who send out a scapegoat… — Herbert Goldenberg Copy Share Image
“In fact, the most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved,… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Real unity tolerates dissent and rejoices in variety of outlook and tradition, recognizes that it is man's destiny to unite and not… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Using some economic issues to make one group of people, regardless of race or religion, the scapegoat for all the problems of… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot about just the aspects of luck and being picked, and how of course it's always how one… — Doseone Copy Share Image
Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face. At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting… — Adam Fletcher Copy Share Image
The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins… — Richard Dawkins 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
For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke,… — Mary McCarthy 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
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
“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
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
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
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
