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Scapegoat Quotes

The rite, the becoming-animal of the scapegoat clearly illustrates this: a first expiatory animal is sacrificed, but a second is driven away, sent out into the desert wilderness. In the signifying regime, the scapegoat represents a new form of increasing entropy in the system of signs: it is charged with everything that was "bad" in a given period, that is, everything that resisted signifying signs, everything that eluded the referral from sign to sign through the different circles; it also... Gilles Deleuze
Michael Lewis quote: "The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play..."
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too. Michael Lewis
Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman," by which he meant that those at the top of the heap use intellectuals as a scapegoat to distract people from the societal inequities that actually affect their lives: those of wealth and power. Intellectuals are posited as both sinister and powerful, conspiratorially undermining the values of ordinary people. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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 which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them. Aung San Suu Kyi
Daphne du Maurier quote: "I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done...."
I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault. Daphne du Maurier
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is..."
He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat. Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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 Lord who had come to renew society, who lay like a coverlet, a snow blanket smitten only by the sun, for ever unwasted, suffering for ever, the scapegoat, the eternal sufferer... Virginia Woolf
Dwight D. Eisenhower quote: "The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting..."
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. Dwight D. Eisenhower
She adapted herself to the split-second rhythm of the New Yorker going to and from work. Getting to the office was a nervous ordeal. If she arrived one minute before nine, she was a free person. If she arrived one minute after, she worried because that made her the logical scapegoat of the boss if he happened to be in a bad mood that day. Betty Smith
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
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
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
Jonathan Davis quote: "Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just..."
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth! Jonathan Davis

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