The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
“If I still need someone to calm my anger down, then I surely need a scapegoat who enrages me.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
“Gets blamed for a lot of things, does the weather. Convenient scapegoat, if you ask me.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
During my first season at Manchester, the team was not performing, and I was the scapegoat. — Marouane Fellaini Copy Share Image
Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats, well here I am. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat. — D. B. Sweeney 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
I've not always played well for City, but I'd never been the scapegoat, coming off at half-time when in my head I… — Micah Richards 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
“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
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
There's a big thing right now with people using stand-up as a scapegoat. People think comedians have the power to change someone… — Bill Burr 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 idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Political parties often take advantage of denial and fear in a moment of change. This is a well understood phenomenon that often… — Graciela Chichilnisky 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
I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a… — Roméo Dallaire Copy Share Image
The path to relative economic, social and ecological sustainability is guaranteed to be littered with failures of every nature and scale. If… — John Elkington 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
