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• All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and… — 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… — Mark Twain
• Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it… — Ayn Rand
• We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern… — David Sarnoff
• The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from… — 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… — Richard Dawkins
• 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.
• But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly… — 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 one’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… — Kate Moss

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