Democracy Quote by Frank Herbert

“Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the…

— Frank Herbert

The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it…

— Wyndham Lewis

The fools look for scapegoats. The wise look for solutions and a committed team to solve problems.

— Mahesh Srinivasan

Bankers were scapegoats for the whole Reagan-Thatcher era, which exalted finance and humbled industry, and which had allowed the fruits of progress to accrue…

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

People are upset. They know something is wrong. But they don't know what. The real explanation is too complicated. They won't sit still for…

— Bill Bonner

“We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are…

— David Sarnoff

Every club has its scapegoats, but some are easier targets than others.

— Robbie Savage

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence

— Mark Twain

It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of…

— C.J. Sansom

Each person must ask what his relationship is to the scapegoat. I am not aware of my own, and I am persuaded that the…

— Rene Girard