“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
From the outside it was easy to scapegoat me, whether that was from the media or coaches, whatever. But at least the… — Timo Werner Copy Share Image
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly… — Mark Twain 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
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
The false black preacher is only too happy to reinforce the idea of the white man as scapegoat. His sermons make the… — Jesse Lee Peterson 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
Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my… — George Bernard Shaw 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
“Narcissistic Parents often enlist other family members on their side, causing rifts and building alliances against a “bad” child. In other words,… — Joseph Burgo Copy Share Image
“If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person can take… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, the "queers" of homosexuality.In fact, they… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“When a person believes one thing but chooses or is forced to advocate its opposite, the result is cognitive dissonance. Eventually, in… — Yanis Varoufakis 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“A brick could be used as a scapegoat. But don’t blame the brick. The brick didn’t kill my mother-in-law. It was merely… — Jarod Kintz 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
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
“I couldn’t very well make a special delivery to the door of the constabulary now could I? And he’d have made the… — Ella J. Fraser Copy Share Image
People don't realize that by voting Republican, they voted against themselves…I worry that some people are entertained by the idea of this… — Linda Ronstadt 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“As Peggy snored beside him, Tom pondered the Greek and Hebrew legends of the scapegoat. Pharmakos to the Greeks, Azazel to the… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“You have to conclude that your country has run amuck, that the people responsible are insane, that you can not trust your… — James Drought Copy Share Image
“Many daughters live out their lives avoiding or abiding or arguing with their mothers-burying the long-ago injury or insult or childhood deprivation… — Victoria Secunda 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
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