Scapegoats Quotes

“No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.”

— Sophocles

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

— Jonathan Davis

They change scapegoats at the networks more regularly than some people change socks.

— Harlan Ellison

“Before execution, scapegoats were often worshipped like deities.”

— Peter Thiel

Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats.

— Miep Gies

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

— Mark Twain

Every club has its scapegoats, but some are easier targets than others.

— Robbie Savage

Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats, well here I am.

— Marilyn Manson

“She's nothing to do with my shit, but fuck it, none of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy.”

— Irvine Welsh

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

“Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the…

— Frank Herbert

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

“He doesn’t have sex with sheep—he sleeps with scapegoats. He is my father, and I haven’t seen him since before I was…

— Jarod Kintz

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

— Jacques Barzun

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

— Frank Herbert

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

“It is a terrible thing when it is the substitute that is sent to find a new life, a sign that a…

— Shelley Jackson

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

“We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern…

— David Sarnoff

Each person must ask what his relationship is to the scapegoat. I am not aware of my own, and I am persuaded…

— Rene Girard

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away…

— Wyndham Lewis

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

“In certain quarters the quest for scapegoats had begun. It was important to know whose fault all this was. It was important…

— Salman Rushdie

Donald Trump creates scapegoats in Muslims and Mexican immigrants. He calls for the use of torture. He calls for killing the innocent…

— Mitt Romney

“The problem with letting people tear your walls down, is that you never know who wants to take down those walls just…

— C. JoyBell C

“[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. "The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are…

— Iain Pears

“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

“Do you want to know what General Putnam is thinking? It’s this. He’s thinking that he can’t win the war if he…

— James Lincoln Collier

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence

— Mark Twain

The fools look for scapegoats. The wise look for solutions and a committed team to solve problems.

— Mahesh Srinivasan

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

People are upset. They know something is wrong. But they don't know what. The real explanation is too complicated. They won't sit…

— Bill Bonner