“ Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am. ”
- Marilyn Manson- Copy
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“ There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices — to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own — for the children and the children yet unborn… ”
- Rod Serling- Copy
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“ All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense… ”
- Germaine Greer- Copy
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“ 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… ”
- Edward Hoagland- Copy
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“ The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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