Scapegoats Quotes
25 quotes by 24 authors
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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
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Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats, well here I am.
— Marilyn Manson
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.
— Michael Lewis
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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
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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
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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
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Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats.
— Miep Gies
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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
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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
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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
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Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
— Jonathan Davis
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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
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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
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There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.
— Mark Twain
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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
Who Wrote These Scapegoats Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 25 Scapegoats Quotes as follows: