Scapegoat-- Quotes of the day...

He who is punished is never 

he who performed the deed. 

He is always the scapegoat.

Author- Fredrick Nietzsche

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The scapegoat clearly illustrates this: 

A first expiatory animal is sacrificed, 

but a second is driven away, 

sent out into the desert wilderness. 

In the signifying regime, 

the scapegoat represents a new form of 

increasing entropy in the system of signs: 

it is charged with everything that was "bad" 

in a given period, that is, 

everything that resisted signifying signs, 

everything that eluded the referral from sign to sign 

through the different circles;

it also assumes everything that was unable 

to recharge the signifier as its center and 

carries off everything that spills beyond 

the outermost circle.

Author: Gilles Deleuze

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The first domesticated animal was the scapegoat.

Author: Yanko Tsvetkov