{"quotes":[{"text":"No,' Foyle roared. 'Let them hear this. Let them hear everything.'You're insane, man. You've handed a loaded gun to children.'Stop treating them like children and they'll stop behaving like children. Who the hell are you to play monitor?'What are you talking about?'Stop treating them like children. Explain the loaded gun to them. Bring it all out into the open.' Foyle laughed savagely. 'I've ended the last star-chamber conference in the world. I've blown that last secret wide open. No more secrets from now on.... No more telling the children what's best for them to know.... Let 'em all grow up. It's about. ","author":"Alfred Bester","tags":["1956","awakening","common man","complacency","duty","elitism","gully-foyle","national-security","responsibility","scapegoat","star-chamber"],"id":58652,"author_id":"Alfred+Bester"},{"text":"We all need role models in different seasons, people we look to who bring encouragement for the journey. Every role model but One will fail. If we get up-close we will see that each one is imperfect, except the One perfect lamb who was crucified for our sins. He was the scapegoat. He was the rejected One.","author":"Sue Detweiler","tags":["christian-living","christian","christianity","crucified","different-seasons","encouragement","encouragement","imperfect","jesus","jesus-christ","journey","rejected","role-models","scapegoat"],"id":86328,"author_id":"Sue+Detweiler"},{"text":"This war ends, then so do the taxpayer-funded contracts, the drumbeats in the media, the nice Combatant faces, and the patriotic cause to lull the civilians and shame the dissenters. The other thing that comes to an end is all the justification for why this country's run the way it is. People will wonder why their paychecks are still getting halved to pay off the men who own their utility companies, their roads, their national parks. They'll wonder why they've got to work eighty-hour weeks to support the folks who took their houses and destroyed the middle-class jobs. There's not going to be an enemy to point a finger at anymore. People will see the real problem.","author":"S.J. Kincaid","tags":["class-system","dystopia","injustice","scapegoat","social-politics","war"],"id":87054,"author_id":"S.J.+Kincaid"},{"text":"The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one.","author":"Warren Eyster","tags":["blame","blame-game","scapegoat","scapegoating","scapegoats","truisms","unpleasant-truth"],"id":107893,"author_id":"Warren+Eyster"},{"text":"He came up flailing and sputtering and began to thrash his way toward the line of willows that marked the submerged creek bank. He could not swim, but how would you drown him? His wrath seemed to buoy him up. Some halt in the way of things seems to work here. See him. You could say that he's sustained by his fellow men, like you. Has peopled the shore with them calling to him. A race that gives suck to the maimed and the crazed, that wants their wrong blood in its history and will have it. But they want this man's life. He has heard them in the night seeking him with lanterns and cries of execration. How then is he borne up? Or rather, why will not these waters take him?","author":"Cormac McCarthy","tags":["enemy-of-the-state","hate","hatred","scapegoat","the-indivisible-remainder","the-other"],"id":126757,"author_id":"Cormac+McCarthy"},{"text":"How quickly we come around,' Sazed whispered. 'It wasn't long ago that men were forced to watch the Lord Ruler cut the heads from innocent people. Now we do it to ourselves.","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["corruption","innocence","scapegoat","the-abyss-looks-back"],"id":129494,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"People are always quick to call evil what they do not know. The unknown sprouts fear. It spreads like an infection, burrowing into every facet of their lives. They need a scapegoat, someone to blame. Fingers are pointed, accusations are made, and a target lands on somebody’s back. They grow angry. They turn violent.To history, human nature must be a stubborn and tiring student. No matter how many times history tries to show it the error of its ways, it never learns from its mistakes.","author":"Kelseyleigh Reber","tags":["blame","conformity","evil","fear","history-repeating-itself","human-nature","judgment","learn-from-the-past","life","life-lessons","philosophy","scapegoat","unknown"],"id":146145,"author_id":"Kelseyleigh+Reber"},{"text":"Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.","author":"Frank Herbert","tags":["demagogue","democracy","governance","politics","scapegoat","vote"],"id":157746,"author_id":"Frank+Herbert"},{"text":"Perfectionist parents seem to operate under the illusion that if they can just get their children to be perfect, they will be a perfect family. They put the burden of stability on the child to avoid facing the fact that they, as parents, cannot provide it. The child fails and becomes the scapegoat for family problems. Once again, the child is saddled with the blame.","author":"Susan Forward","tags":["bad parents","blame","family","scapegoat"],"id":183808,"author_id":"Susan+Forward"},{"text":"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.","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["blame","criticism","scapegoat","scapegoating"],"id":193018,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}