Unintelligent people always look
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. Ernest Bevin
Scapegoat
The president is the
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. Eric Andre
The most active period
The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the \”little ice age\”…In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns. … Read more
For a decade Americans
For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of \”zero tolerance\” and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and … Read more
Stop looking for a
Stop looking for a scapegoat in your life but be willing to face the truth within yourself & right your own wrongs Eileen Caddy
I think it\\’s too
I think it’s too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man. Edward Zwick
Animals used to provide
Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is … Read more
The scorn directed against
The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, the \”queers\” of homosexuality.In fact, they are classic scapegoats. Our old fears about our sissiness, still with us though masked by the new macho fascism, are now located, isolated, quarantined through our persecution of the transvestite. Edmund White
He who is punished
He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat. Friedrich Nietzsche
Collective guilt is borne
Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society – which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement – will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro. … Read more