Scapegoat
animal which is ritually burdened with the sins of others, then driven away
A scapegoat is an animal ritually burdened with the sins of others.
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Quotes
edit- Without the Cross, there is no revelation of the fundamental injustice of the scapegoat mechanism, which is the founder of human culture, with all its repercussions in our relationships with each other.
- René Girard, "The Scandal of Christianity" in Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture (2007), p. 219
- You all wanted that someone be made a scapegoat. I did not do that. I allowed you to break all pots on my head alone. You have all decided-all these riots happened under this man (Narendra Modi). Until this man is removed from the chief minister’s post, we will not rest in peace. My best wishes to you in your mission.
- Narendra Modi. In an interview to NDTV broadcast on March 20, 2004, Narendra Modi said to Shekhar Gupta, the editor of The Indian Express . quoted in Madhu Purnima Kishwar: Modi, Muslims and Media. Voices from Narendra Modi’s Gujarat, Manushi Publications, Delhi 2014. p 302
- Rod Serling: The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices...to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill...and suspicion can destroy...and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn.
- Rod Serling, "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street", The Twilight Zone, CBS, (March 4, 1960).
