I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair. — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Every time I could escape from Sunday church, I did, from the age of twelve until about thirty. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
