Scapegoat Quotes

60 quotes by 55 authors

Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face. At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities… — Adam Fletcher
Stop looking for a scapegoat in your life but be willing to face the truth within yourself & right your own wrongs — Eileen Caddy
Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility:… — George Bernard Shaw
Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they… — Edward Hoagland
A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and… — Hilary Mantel
Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats. — Miep Gies
Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for… — Dan Millman
The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind.… — Ayn Rand
I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again.… — Edward Zwick
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
Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat… — Bob Barr
Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress,… — Frantz Fanon
I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such… — Faith Prince
The artist is the world's scapegoat. — Jacob Epstein
Congress has really set this thing up in a way that they absolve themselves of blame, They have their scapegoats. They can blame the Pentagon.… — Juan Carlos I of Spain
He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as… — Desmond Tutu
I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared… — Henry Louis Gates
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth! — Jonathan Davis
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for… — Richard Hofstadter

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