Quotes · Skopia

3 quotes

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Topic·Scapegoats✕clear

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its "victims".

1989

★ 1.9

Film · Mystery (film) · Drama (film) · Mystery · Drama

They've got a murder they don't know what to do with. They need a whipping boy.

Det. Virgil Tibbs

In the Heat of the Night · 1967

★ 3.7

TV program · Science fiction (TV) · Science fiction

For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

Narrator (Twilight Zone)

The Twilight Zone · 1960

★ 4.4