We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
If you scapegoat someone, it's a third party that will be aware of it. It won't be you. Because you will believe you are… — Rene Girard Copy Share
“There is no culture without a tomb and no tomb without a culture; in the end the tomb is the first and only cultural… — René Girard Copy Share
The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die, but on the rectification of that… — Rene Girard Copy Share
“The good son imitates the father with such passion that father and son become each other's chief stumbling block - a situation the indifferent… — René Girard Copy Share
Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals. — Rene Girard Copy Share
Every time I could escape from Sunday church, I did, from the age of twelve until about thirty. — Rene Girard Copy Share
I do not read many periodicals, and I have little or no contact with progressive Christians, so I don't really know what goes on… — Rene Girard Copy Share
“The revolutionaries thought they would be destroying vanity when they destroyed the privileges of the noble. But vanity is like a virulent cancer that… — René Girard Copy Share
I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair. — Rene Girard Copy Share
“So long as globalization was slow in coming, everyone hoped and prayed that it would come soon. The unity of the world's nations was… — René Girard Copy Share
“Nietzsche is a marvelous antidote to all fundamentally anti-Biblical efforts to turn mythology into a kind of Bible, and that is the project of… — René Girard Copy Share
“Even in the most closed cultures men believe that they are free and open to the universal; their differential character makes the narrowest cultural… — René Girard Copy Share
Each person must ask what his relationship is to the scapegoat. I am not aware of my own, and I am persuaded that the… — Rene Girard Copy Share
“We must renounce the gambit of "good" and "bad" - even in its inverted form. We must acknowledge that misapprehensions abound, that violence is… — René Girard Copy Share
