Quotes About Scapegoating

#1. When there's change, and people fear things, they become more dogmatic in their views. They lash out: you can see it in the media, scapegoating and penal sentencing.

Samantha Harvey

#2. The majority is almost always wrong. The crowd is untruth. Scapegoating is demonic.

Brian Zahnd

#3. Denunciations of the manipulativeness of advertisers can unfortunately all too easily be turned on their heads into denunciations of the gullibility of consumers. Both are forms of scapegoating, neither accomplishes anything.

J.M. Coetzee

#4. Without a positive representation in the mythos to consolidate its sociocultural existence, homosexuality remains completely vulnerable to a resurgence of homophobia and scapegoating.

Gilles Herrada

#5. Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame - illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.

Winona Ryder

#6. The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up.

Charles Stross

#7. If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing.

Jamie Dimon

#8. The evidence of "forgiveness of sin" is not found in a profession of belief, but in a life freed from self-destructive pursuits, scapegoating, and violence.

Peter Rollins

#9. Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a problem. We are not the problem.

George Papandreou

#10. Some seem to think that Jesuits are behind everything, without any evidence whatsoever.
That is not thinking, that is scapegoating.

Sienna McQuillen

#11. Stop scapegoating immigrants[Stop using] outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.'

Howard Dean

#12. There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

Jack Kemp

#13. The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.

Richard Rohr

#14. It's easy to blame traffic jam
when you're late and in a hurry.

Toba Beta

#15. He's dreaming, Cloquet thought, as he stood over him, revolver in hand. He's dreaming, and I exist in reality. Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.

Woody Allen

#16. I've worked many jobs throughout my life, which has ultimately enhanced my appreciation for the opportunity to teach yoga and share something so positive.

David F. Swensen

#17. The hardest part has been learning how to take myself seriously when the entire world is constantly telling me that femininity is always inferior to masculinity

Julia Serano

#18. I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoats for national ills that would otherwise be blamed on neighbours.

Agona Apell

#19. Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

Naguib Mahfouz

#20. Feel," said Driscoll, his hands and arms out loosely. "Remember how you used to run when you were a kid, and how the wind felt. Like feathers on your arms. You ran and thought any minute you'd fly, but you never quite did.

Ray Bradbury

#21. 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

#22. In the minds of my parents, they are the victims; I am the abuser.

Christina Enevoldsen

#23. Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it.

Shannon L. Alder

#24. You can always somebody who is worse than you are to make you feel virtuous. It's a cheap shot: those awful terrorists, perverts, communists
they are the ones who need to repent! Yes, indeed they do, and for them repentance will be a full-time job, exactly as it is for all the rest of us.

Hugh Nibley

#25. The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one.

Warren Eyster

#26. I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

Shia Labeouf

#27. The bashful beggar has an empty purse.

William Cranch Bond

#28. But just for a minute. I won't be gone long and if she wakes up before I get back tell her that I love her.

Amanda Stephan

#29. I don't think he should make foreign policy on the basis of peak,but I don't think it can be overstated that Israel has been an embattled democracy that has enjoyed the bipartisan and overwhelming support of Americans. It has been a moral force.

Mark Shields

#30. Betty had her crocheting out again. The morning light winked off her needles and Olivia recognized that she was making a baby blanket.

Ellery Adams

#31. The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#32. Over the obsidian hills and the sunken yellow dale, through the vast oceans of fog and the fires of nevermore, sits the fickle doors of the land of twilight. I will traverse it all, and execute righteous judgment on all that oppose me.

H.S. Crow