Quotes About Scapegoating

The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

finding easy scapegoats for complicated problems had been a human pastime since the first mob of cavemen struck someone down with a rock.

La brujería es la salsa que vierten los idiotas sobre el fracaso para ocultar el sabor de su incompetencia" -Tyrion Lannister

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

I think a lot of scapegoating has been done on NAFTA. The reality is, a lot of the jobs have been lost mostly to technology. And that is something that happens well beyond the reach of NAFTA or any other trade agreement.

There will be others like him," replied Lanny, "unless we solve the problem of poverty in the midst of plenty. The German middle classes, the little men like Hitler, were being wiped out, and he offered a millennium, also a scapegoat, the Jews. When he got the votes, he took them to the big industrialists and sold them for more campaign funds.

When times is tough and jobs is scarce, folks blame the outsider. It's human nature. And raht now, that's us. In California it used to be the Mexicans, and the Chinese before that, I think.

People get scared when they lose their jobs and they tend to blame outsiders. The first step is to call them criminals. The rest is easy.

Daily we see how demographic change and uncertainty about what it means to be British is exploited by those with their own agenda; those who employ divisive rhetoric, engage in scapegoating and do nothing to tackle root causes of the insecurities people face.

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.

Having a scapegoat means not knowing that we have one.

It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowledged their guilt weren't guilty at all.

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

There are people out there with very limited horizons. They wear social blinders. They feel it is better to play it safe, to run scared, and blame the most convenient scapegoat. And that means censorship…and censorship is the attempted murder of our whole culture. Censure replicates itself until it engulfs everything.

Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.

Bu stresin alt?nda ezilenler için ak?l rahats?zl???na s???nmaktan ba?ka çare gözükmüyordu ki, zaman?n ?artlar? ile bu fanatik dincili?e döndü. Kara Ölüm'ün ilk günlerinde toplu sapk?nl?k, kendini ?ehir ?ehir dola?an binlerce k?rbaçç? tarikatlarda gösterdi. Sonra salg?n?n yay?lmas?ndan Yahudiler sorumlu tutuldu.

Ik dacht vroeger ook, dat de jodenhaat alles met Christus had te maken, maar dat is niet zo; die was er ver vóór Christus ook al, er worden alleen steeds nieuwe redenen voor bedacht: dat ze rijk en patserig zijn, dat ze arm en smerig zijn, dat ze aan de touwtjes van het plutocratische grootkapitalisme trekken, dat ze revolutionairen zijn en het communisme op hun geweten hebben, dat ze geen vaderland bezitten, dat ze hun vaderland herinrichten,-alles is goed, als het maar slecht is.

Sometimes people choose one person in a crowd to pick at. It makes them feel better to say how there's one entirely rotten person they can blame everything on.

No matter what Germany or Germans did, it was because they were defending themselves from international Jewry. The Jews were always the aggressor, the Germans always the victims.

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Låt inte någon välja ut dina syndabockar. Det är din sak. Om den skulle sammanfalla med någon annans syndabock, dussintals eller fler, byt bock. Den kan inte vara din.

Richard Grunberger points out in The Twelve-Year Reich, the Jew served a necessary psychological function. "Just as primitive man's concept of God supposed the existence of the Devil, so the German's progressive self-deification during the Third Reich depended upon the demonization of the Jew.

When we feel helpless later in life, fear makes us scapegoat others. Instead of fixing the problems, we say, 'Oh, it's all their fault - those women or immigrants are infesting our country.' Rather than useful protest or constructive solutions, we get angry at these handy targets.