Scapegoats Quotes

25 quotes by 24 authors

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
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.
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth! — Jonathan Davis
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 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
There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence. — Mark Twain
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

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