Shoot The Messenger Quotes

“You’re going to shoot the messenger?”

“Yeah, Dad, if the messenger can’t learn to keep his interfering ass out of my business.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“We live in a society where people are often more offended by those who point out child abuse than by the abuse itself. In other words, society does not view abuse as the problem; the problem is you pointing it out. Society's basic mindset is that "If we don't talk about abuse, then it's not happening." Similarly, children are attacked when they point out the dysfunction around them.”
― Darius Cikanavicius, Human Development and Trauma: How Childhood Shapes Us into Who We Are as Adults

“The enemy that is Envy is trigger-happy; he's pretty much a gunslinger who wields a silenced Demotivator - sent with sabotage, suicide, and suppression, he assassinates in secret, and so hopes to exterminate, to kill what was meant to motivate him - in simpler terms and less expression: he shoots the messenger.”
― Criss Jami

“Healing is often if not usually caused not by the medication but by the belief with which the patient has left the hospital or pharmacy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana