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| c4a2370 | 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. | criticism scapegoat scapegoating | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 6b3be4d | 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. | politics governance scapegoat vote democracy | Frank Herbert |