Scapegoat Quotes

60 Scapegoat quotes by 55 unique authors

When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of… — Ron Paul
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love… — Tim Ferriss
The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems… — Aung San Suu Kyi
Teachers were both blamed for everything that went wrong with kids and turned to for their every salvation. This dual role of scapegoat and savior… — Lionel Shriver
The most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat,… — John Bradshaw
I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault. — Daphne du Maurier
scapegoat, n. I think our top two are: 1. Not enough coffee. 2. Too much coffee. — David Levithan
It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes. — Leo Tolstoy
For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own, for… — Rod Serling
The battle rages eternal, though the race, religion, gender or sexual orientation of those discriminated against changes regularly. Maybe manâ€™s need for a scapegoat is… — Josh Lanyon
There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence. — Mark Twain
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. — Ernest Bevin
The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation,… — Christopher Hitchens
The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is… — Wyndham Lewis
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills… — Ice Cube
God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins — Mark Twain
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, ideas, predjudices, to be… — Rod Serling
Don't allow people on your team to blame a certain individual or segment of your program and make them the scapegoat for your problems, it… — Bill Walsh
Please don't blame or scapegoat love for being stupid. You look in your man's wallet and see his license has him ten years older than… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler

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