Scapegoats In History Quotes & Sayings

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation but the wrong culprit. Human sacrifices were made preeminently in times of epidemics, useless prayers were uttered, bogus "miracles" attested to, and scapegoats
such as Jews or witches
hunted down and burned. — Christopher Hitchens

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything. — Captain Beefheart

In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included. — Barbara Kingsolver

I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work. — James Caan

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter. — Blaise Pascal

There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner. — David Lynch

Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them. — Jeff Lindsay

Most of the time, if I'm in a pickle, I'll call one of my brothers. They've usually got somewhat uplifting advice. One is six and a half years older and one is eight years older, so they've probably lived through whatever my problem is. — Liam Hemsworth

Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don't know they're telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they're lying, then you can start to build a world. — Sarah Rees Brennan

I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do. — Patrick DeWitt

When I attended the University, I daydreamed about being a movie star. I would do my dressing room in Early American and give lovely presents to my make-up man and hairdresser for making me look so lovely, and so on. When I got my contract at 20th I was in seventh heaven, but I found out that a movie career is mostly hard work laced with disappointments. — Coleen Gray

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one's scapegoats. — Jacques Barzun

Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In times of war prices of the necessaries of life are generally very much increased, but the prices of labor of the poor do not usually rise. — Mark Kurlansky

To all pimps and whores a merry syphilis and a happy gonorrhea. — Graham Greene

If we are not represented, we are slaves. — James Otis