Quotes About Scapegoat

I definitely feel like I'm the scapegoat for a lot of The Process issues.

During my first season at Manchester, the team was not performing, and I was the scapegoat.

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

In order to destroy the scapegoat mechanism, a different strategy must be adopted. Instead of trying to create a community where there is no outsider, the real answer lies in understanding that there is a sense in which we are all outsiders. In concrete terms, this means that a community faces its own lack, rather than ignoring it and thus creating a scapegoat who must carry it.

Serbia is blamed in advance for everything.

It is always tempting to believe that a bad system is the fault of one bad man.

I was definitely bullied, basically. I was definitely the person that everybody blamed for everything.

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

You have to conclude that your country has run amuck, that the people responsible are insane, that you can not trust your leaders, your President, your general, your parents, your friends, your neighbors, you co-workers, your police, your town, your state, your country, anymore because it is liable to turn upon you for no reason at all, except that for its own security it needs a scapegoat, any scapegoat including you, and there is no appeal possible.

Graham had this sinking feeling in his stomach. It felt like Paris all over again. If Lanie died this whole affair would blow up in his face. Hollywood would want a scapegoat, and he fit the bill to a T. His having tried to help wouldn't matter. The star machine would crucify him.

It was one of the oldest tricks of mob-management: give them a hate figure. The

A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.

Moses explained, "the goat will bear all their faults away with it into a desert place."1 In his classic study of religion and violence, René Girard argued that the scapegoat ritual defused rivalries among groups within the community.2

A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.

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

People who lose money always need someone to blame.

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.

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

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.

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

Mean systems scapegoat and demoralize. They attack people instead of problems. They're a relic of a primitive and superstitious past. They are not data driven.

Frankenstein as the underdog. Not the monster. The villagers pursuing him are the monster.

The high priest Caiaphas alludes to this mechanism when he says, "It is better that one man die and that the whole nation not perish." The four accounts of the Crucifix-ion thus enable us to witness the unfolding of the working of the single victim mechanism. The sequence of events, as I have already said, resembles numerous analogous phenomena whose director and producer is Satan. The

The Church has never been a scapegoat more than it is today. But one must see the symbolic value of this: whatever the Church may have lost by its compromises with the world, its enemies now give back by obliging it to play the same role as Christ. This is its true vocation. And now that it has been reaffirmed, it will enable the Church to shake off the indolence and decadence of the age that is now drawing to a close. MSB