Scapegoat Quotations

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.

I was seen as the scapegoat and the manager even told me I'd not done a lot wrong. He just changed it and that was very hard to take. I sulked for two or three weeks but that's normal and now I just have to get my head down and work hard and hope for my chance to get back into the first team,

She was made a scapegoat for a deficient child-placement system. Now she can get on with her life.

Stop looking for a scapegoat in your life but be willing to face the truth within yourself & right your own wrongs

Kobe had to take some heat for that, as if he was the one who manufactured that (O'Neal) trade. All those things were made to look like there was a scapegoat in this situation, and there wasn't.

I did it, in all honesty, because I thought I was going to be made a scapegoat in this case.

I was the most perfect scapegoat in history. Nobody was better than I was.

I think that some people looked for a scapegoat because we lost to Sunderland, and thats one of the diseases in football,

It has an overarching impact on the state in terms of attracting tourism, attracting conventions and attracting businesses that want to make their home here. It is very unfortunate that the governor has chosen to scapegoat a minority group in this way.

When the church makes gay men a scapegoat for paedophiles, it ignores one problem and creates another. It does nothing to keep children safe or punish criminals.

When I was in government it was routine for these CIO agents and their factional counterparts in government and ZANU PF politicians to abuse me as a scapegoat for anything they were unable to explain or defend.

Don't make the planned tariff hike a scapegoat for the companies managerial problems. They said they could not afford it (the hike), but actually it s because they are facing various internal problems.

Now he sees the opposition is getting stronger, he's looking for a scapegoat ... This is a Chadian problem.

This is part of the church hierarchy's calculated and frankly, evil campaign to scapegoat gay people for the decades of appalling sex abuse of children and young people that it alone created, nurtured, and covered up, ... abject, willful negligence of the hierarchy.

I'm happy to be called not a Rudy Giuliani ... a scapegoat ... if it means that FEMA that I knew when I came here is going to be able to be reborn.

The church hierarchy is attempting to scapegoat gay people for its own failure to address the sexual abuse of children and young people that it alone created and covered up. The evil in this is that they are trying to equate being gay with sex abuse, which is appalling.

They (Congress) found a scapegoat (Singh). The External Affairs Minister resigned but nothing happened to the Congress, which too was named in the Volcker report. This Congress administration is neck-deep in corruption.

The easiest course of action would have been to satisfy everybody, use Col. New as the scapegoat and it would have been done with, ... But it would have been the wrong thing to do ... because Col. New had done everything we could ask a prudent commander to do in order to deal with the situation in that unit.

You wonder if you're just being a scapegoat for the things that happen in the games, but then you just go back and re-evaluate yourself. After you see the film you don't really look at it like that. You just try to improve on things you did wrong.

The church is making gay men a scapegoat for criminal pedophiles.

The film and TV industries are being used as a scapegoat for what has happened.

The artist is the world's scapegoat.

IT organizations need to implement IT controls for compliance management without increasing architectural complexity. This requires that IT organizations work hand-in-glove with financial, legal and business operations to manage operational risk. Expanding compliance and operational risk demands offer an opportunity for IT to build long-lasting value for the firm, or face the threat of becoming a scapegoat for operational and legal deficiency.

We cannot build until the government completes the excavation and the site preparation that is necessary for towers 2, 3, 4 and 5 to go forward, and it is unfair to seek to scapegoat Mr. Silverstein for those delays.

It looks to me like Richmond will be known as scapegoat city.

If I still need someone to calm my anger down, then I surely need a scapegoat who enrages me.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats, well here I am.

Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.

He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.