Scapegoat Quotes

I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

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.

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It`s hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

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.

He`s felt from the start that he was the scapegoat. If he`s going down, they`re going down with him, and this is his moment. I think Andy will say whatever he has to to bring these two guys down with him.

"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, ideas, predjudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, predjudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. A thoughtless, freightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all it`s own for the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, is that these things can not be confined to the Twighlight Zone.