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Scapegoat Quotes & Sayings

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Things you don't need in your life targets you the most. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats, well here I am. — Marilyn Manson

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. — Ernest Bevin

The first domesticated animal was the scapegoat. — Yanko Tsvetkov

Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat. — Sandra Tsing Loh

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too. — Michael Lewis

Never lose time in sending the scapegoat to the slaughterhouse. — Ali Sheikh

I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault. — Daphne Du Maurier

After the matter has cooled off during an extended period of investigation, to find a scapegoat to blame for unauthorized tampering with the mails. — Colin A. Ross

Most myths were made up by men who needed a scapegoat to avoid taking responsibility for a catastrophe of their own making. — S.J. Harper

Gets blamed for a lot of things, does the weather. Convenient scapegoat, if you ask me. — Martin Edwards

I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society. — Victoria Woodhull

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

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. — Frank Herbert

The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one. — Warren Eyster

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

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

Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for this crisis: they really did this. — Michael Lewis

If I still need someone to calm my anger down,
then I surely need a scapegoat who enrages me. — Toba Beta

Stop looking for a scapegoat in your life but be willing to face the truth within yourself & right your own wrongs — Eileen Caddy

Scapegoat, n.
I think our top two are:
1. Not enough coffee.
2. Too much coffee. — David Levithan

The majority is almost always wrong. The crowd is untruth. Scapegoating is demonic. — Brian Zahnd

There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues. — Wale

A person who smiles in the face of adversity ... probably has a scapegoat. — Stephen Hawking

He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat. — Mignon McLaughlin

No wonder you've turned on me so savagely. I suspect that you are using me as a scapegoat for your own feelings of guilt. — John Kennedy Toole

The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr. — Thomas Szasz

There's our excuse ... we'll blame everything on the round-headed kid! — Charles M. Schulz

In the minds of my parents, they are the victims; I am the abuser. — Christina Enevoldsen

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling. — Francois Mauriac

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The artist is the world's scapegoat. — Jacob Epstein

The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being. — James G. Frazer

Maybe it ain't about others' mistakes,
but only your need for someone to blame. — Toba Beta