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
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
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
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
It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's… — Leo Tolstoy 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 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
“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 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
I see that a number of persons might consider it appropriate to take the ECB as a possible scapegoat and I think… — Jean-Claude Trichet 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
“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 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
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
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it… — Ayn Rand 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
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 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
“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
scapegoat, n. I think our top two are: 1. Not enough coffee. 2. Too much coffee. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
There is a tendency to attack some particular group of people and scapegoat them, but this is not the right attitude to… — Park Won-soon 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
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
How long shall we Spiritualists be turned over like so many scapegoats to the unbelievers, by cheating mediums and speculating prophets? — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
