Focus Quote by Rene Girard

Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.

— Robert Dallek

Long-running scandal fuels targeted political media. It's the stuff of obsession, which is the basis of a passionate core audience. More obsession means more…

— Michael Wolff

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

— Ouida

People like scandals.

— Blanka Vlasic

A fuel of discontent and anxiety is probably pretty central to the fuel at 'Scandal!'

— Jeff Perry

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

— Oscar Wilde

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in…

— Jonathan Haidt

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

— Jerry Saltz

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

— George Packer

There are times when being scandalous or provocative can help bring focus to issues of major concern.

— Maurizio Cattelan

Scandals have impacted many politicians' careers and aspirations. Some have survived, and others have fallen.

— Mercedes Schlapp

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in…

— Jonathan Haidt