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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. -- Ernest Bevin
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too. -- Michael Lewis
I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous. -- Kate Moss
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat. -- Richard Hofstadter
I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man. -- Edward Zwick
I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism. -- Henry Louis Gates
Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats. -- Miep Gies
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth! -- Jonathan Davis
He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling. -- Francois Mauriac
The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr. -- Thomas Szasz
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
It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes. -- Leo Tolstoy
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. -- Mark Twain
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 our problems. -- Ron Paul
Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any 'abuse' came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position, -- Monica Lewinsky
For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own, for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone. -- Rod Serling
Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement - will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro. -- Frantz Fanon
Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing. -- George Bernard Shaw
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health. -- Germaine Greer
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen. -- Ayn Rand
Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me. -- Edward Hoagland
There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues. -- Wale
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat. -- Ice Cube
Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand. -- Bob Barr
The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins that all we unborn generations might have been contemplating in the future. Adam's sin is perhaps mitigated by the extenuating circumstance that he didn't exist. -- Richard Dawkins
There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't. -- Conrad Black
I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles. -- Faith Prince
The artist is the world's scapegoat. -- Jacob Epstein
Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Never lose time in sending the scapegoat to the slaughterhouse. -- Ali Sheikh
In the war on terrorism, the immigrant is often the scapegoat. -- Andrew Lam
A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat. -- Stephen Hawking
scapegoat, n. I think our top two are: 1. Not enough coffee. 2. Too much coffee. -- David Levithan
Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for this crisis: they really did this. -- Michael Lewis
The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being. -- James G. Frazer
I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society. -- Victoria Woodhull
I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault. -- Daphne du Maurier
Stop looking for a scapegoat in your life but be willing to face the truth within yourself & right your own wrongs -- Eileen Caddy
The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties. -- Rose Bird
I see that a number of persons might consider it appropriate to take the ECB as a possible scapegoat and I think that is not the case at all. -- Jean-Claude Trichet
The battle rages eternal, though the race, religion, gender or sexual orientation of those discriminated against changes regularly. Maybe man's need for a scapegoat is genetically programmed into him. -- Josh Lanyon
The president is the country's scapegoat more than the country's leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master. -- Eric Andre
All the themes of incipient fascism are present, to some degree, in our present-day political culture: the fear of the Other, the need for a (powerless) scapegoat, including the theme of expansionism. -- Justin Raimondo
Teachers were both blamed for everything that went wrong with kids and turned to for their every salvation. This dual role of scapegoat and savior was downright messianic but even Jesus was probably paid better. -- Lionel Shriver
The most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat, the righteous and the wretched, the powerful and the pathetic. -- John Bradshaw
The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance. -- Mary McCarthy

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