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“Congress has really set this thing up in a way that they absolve themselves of blame, They have their scapegoats. They can blame the Pentagon. They can blame BRAC. It's hard for voters to say this is Ortiz's fault.”

Way Hard Blame Faults Congress Voters Pentagon Scapegoat

Author:Juan Carlos I of Spain

“It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.”

Made Country Nations Easy Realizing Enemy Ready Blame Collaborators Scapegoat

Author:Desmond Tutu

“For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a large, reputable, strong and independent United Nations, no matter their hypocritical pronouncements otherwise. What they want is a weak, beholden, indebted scapegoat of an organization, which they can blame for their failures or steal victories from.”

Want Country Matter Strong Nations United Risk Victory Members Weak Organization Independent Blame Stealing Objectives Serving Smallest United Nations Hypocritical Scapegoat Indebted

Author:Roméo Dallaire

“What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for the last six thousand years, the Devil has been the grand scapegoat. He has had to bear the blame of every thing that has gone wrong. All the evil that gets committed is laid to his door, and he has, besides, the credit of hindering all the good that has never got done at all. If mankind were not thus one and all victims to the Devil, what an irredeemable set of scoundrels they would be obliged to confess themselves!”

Source: Zoe: The History of Two Lives

“I love Twitter. It doesn't keep me from writing and I think it's a really convenient scapegoat when the truth is that the real issue is self-control. I am totally fine admitting i have none. I'm not going to blame Twitter for affecting my writing. And also, Twitter doesn't affect my writing.”

Thinking Writing Real Self Issues Fine Truth Is Blame Self Control Convenient Admitting Scapegoat

Author:Roxane Gay

“Political parties often take advantage of denial and fear in a moment of change. This is a well understood phenomenon that often leads to scapegoat-ism: blaming outsiders, such as immigrants, or racial and religious minorities. The phenomenon is behind Brexit and the violence in the political cycles in the US and EU.”

Wells Moments Political Religious Party Behinds Violence Understood Advantage Blame Denial Minorities Immigrants Cycles Phenomenon Outsiders Political Parties Isms Scapegoat

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“Blaming the imperialists nowadays is obviously absurd, as is blaming the Americans, who obviously don't have the slightest desire to control anything in the Middle East. The American desire is to get out as quickly as possible and the general view is that now that the Cold War is over and the Soviets are no longer a problem, we have no reason to stay there, let's get out. They will have to confront their own problems. Israel provides a useful scapegoat but it's a limited one.”

War Reason Problem Desire Cold Blame Absurd Cold War Scapegoat

Author:Bernard Lewis

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

Blame Accountability Hunting Scapegoat Expeditions

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.”

Men Easy Mistake Blame Shoulders Criticize Favour Scapegoat

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“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. 'Witches' became target for blame because there was an existing cultural framework that both allowed their persecution and suggested that they could control the weather.”

“The path to relative economic, social and ecological sustainability is guaranteed to be littered with failures of every nature and scale. If we recognize them and learn from them, the transition will proceed faster and in more resource-efficient ways. If, on the other hand, we prefer the short-term comfort of burying our failures, or of blaming scapegoats, the transition will be significantly slowed, or could even be derailed completely.”

Ifs Way Hands Social Term Inspiring Path Economic Comfort Resources Blame Scales Faster Transition Relative Efficient Sustainability Short Term Ecological Scapegoat Burying

Author:John Elkington