There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues. — Wale Copy Share Image
“It was very handy to have such a foreign scapegoat when so much was wrong at home.1” — Daniel Yergin 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
Learning that we have a scapegoat is to lose it forever and to expose ourselves to mimetic conflicts with no possible resolution. — Rene Girard 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
scapegoat, n. I think our top two are: 1. Not enough coffee. 2. Too much coffee. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat. — Stephen Hawking 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
