Scapegoat Quotes

60 quotes by 55 authors

All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade… — Germaine Greer
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug… — Mark Twain
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for… — Ayn Rand
We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not… — David Sarnoff
The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from an objective point… — Richard Dawkins
Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats, well here I am. — Marilyn Manson
I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion… — Richard Dawkins
The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it didÂ notÂ cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture… — Yaron Brook
The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling. — Francois Mauriac
To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose oneâ€™s scapegoats. — Jacques Barzun
I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was… — Kate Moss
To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare Parasites, the Power… — Robert Anton Wilson
The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age"...In… — Emily Oster
The path to relative economic, social and ecological sustainability is guaranteed to be littered with failures of every nature and scale. If we recognize them… — John Elkington
At this young age I am already sold on the idea of the dog. One of God's absolutely greatest inventions and one that needs no… — Rick Springfield
Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any 'abuse' came in… — Monica Lewinsky
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too. — Michael Lewis
It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty… — C.J. Sansom
It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yogaâ€¦ Itâ€™s just you and… — Bikram Choudhury

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