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For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

~ Thomas More

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Do you want to know what General Putnam is thinking? It’s this. He’s thinking that he can’t win the war if he doesn’t keep the people on his side. He’s thinking that he can’t keep the people on his side if the troops are running amok among the civilian population—raping the women, stealing cattle, burning houses. He is determined to scare the wits out of the troops to keep them in line. And he’s thinking that it doesn’t matter very much who he executes to do it. So many men have died, so many mothers have wept, so many brothers and sisters have cried. He is thinking that in the long run if he executes somebody, he’ll shorten the war and save more lives. It doesn’t matter to him very much who he executes; one man’s agony is like another’s, one mother’s tears are no wetter than anybody else’s. And that’s why he’s going to have Sam shot.

~ James Lincoln Collier

James Lincoln Collier Fairness Injustice Law And Order Leadership Military Scapegoats War

I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoats for national ills that would otherwise be blamed on neighbours.

~ Agona Apell

Agona Apell Immigrants Neighbours Scapegoating Scapegoats War

Religious extremism is fatal to those who don't conform to its values, or remold or submit themselves to its 'principles'. It craves control and power - and power is the one tool that enables it to wreak its characteristic havoc, destruction and cruelty upon those it chooses to label as scapegoats. Giving in to extremists enables them and empowers them - and worse, it encourages them.

~ Christina Engela

Christina Engela Characteristic Craves Control Cruelty Destruction Dont Conform Empowers Encourages Extremists Fatal Havoc Label Power Principles Religious Extemism Remold Scapegoats Submit Values Worse Wreak

A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.

~ Charlie Jane Anders

Charlie Jane Anders Ethics Scapegoats Society

[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are marching. Men and women are dying everywhere, in huge numbers. Fields are abandoned and towns deserted. The wrath of the Lord is upon us and He may be intending to destroy the whole of creation. People are without leaders and direction. They want to be given a reason for this, so they can be reassured, so they will return to their prayers and their obiediences. All this is going on, and you are concerned about the safety of two Jews?

~ Iain Pears

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No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.

~ Sophocles

Sophocles Bad News Blame Scapegoats

The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one.

~ Warren Eyster

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