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> [“Instead of reorganizing the demoniac, rearranging it a bit, like a psychoanalyst, you do away with it entirely.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/instead-of-reorganizing-the-demoniac-rearranging-it-a-bit-like-a/)

[René Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

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## More by Rene Girard

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/if-you-scapegoat-someone-it-s-a-third-party-that-will-be-aware-of-it/)

[Rene Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

> [“There is no culture without a tomb and no tomb without a culture; in the end the tomb is the first and only cultural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/there-is-no-culture-without-a-tomb-and-no-tomb-without-a-culture-in/)

[René Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

> [The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die, but on the rectification of that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/the-true-resurrection-is-based-not-on-the-mythical-lie-of-the-guilty/)

[Rene Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

> [“The good son imitates the father with such passion that father and son become each other's chief stumbling block - a situation the indifferent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/the-good-son-imitates-the-father-with-such-passion-that-father-and/)

[René Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

> [Individualism is a formidable lie.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/individualism-is-a-formidable-lie/)

[Rene Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

> [Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/instead-of-blaming-victimization-on-the-victims-the-gospels-blame-it/)

[Rene Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

> [Every time I could escape from Sunday church, I did, from the age of twelve until about thirty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/every-time-i-could-escape-from-sunday-church-i-did-from-the-age-of/)

[Rene Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/i-do-not-read-many-periodicals-and-i-have-little-or-no-contact-with/)

[Rene Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

> [“The revolutionaries thought they would be destroying vanity when they destroyed the privileges of the noble. But vanity is like a virulent cancer that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/the-revolutionaries-thought-they-would-be-destroying-vanity-when-they/)

[René Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

> [I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/i-think-that-historical-processes-have-meaning-and-that-we-have-to/)

[Rene Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/so-long-as-globalization-was-slow-in-coming-everyone-hoped-and-prayed/)

[René Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/nietzsche-is-a-marvelous-antidote-to-all-fundamentally-anti-biblical/)

[René Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

> [“Even in the most closed cultures men believe that they are free and open to the universal; their differential character makes the narrowest cultural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/even-in-the-most-closed-cultures-men-believe-that-they-are-free-and/)

[René Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

> [Each person must ask what his relationship is to the scapegoat. I am not aware of my own, and I am persuaded that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/each-person-must-ask-what-his-relationship-is-to-the-scapegoat-i-am/)

[Rene Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

> [“We must renounce the gambit of "good" and "bad" - even in its inverted form. We must acknowledge that misapprehensions abound, that violence is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/we-must-renounce-the-gambit-of-good-and-bad-even-in-its-inverted-form/)

[René Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

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