Knowing Quote by Rene Girard Download Open image “Having a scapegoat means not knowing that we have one.” — Rene Girard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Knowing Means Not knowing Scapegoat
“The scapegoat is a central figure in human life. A community that feels threatened identifies groups or individuals responsible for the crisis, casts them… — Yuri Slezkine Copy Share Image
The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Learning that we have a scapegoat is to lose it forever and to expose ourselves to mimetic conflicts with no possible resolution. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats, well here I am. — Marilyn Manson 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
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 Image
Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame - illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
This traditionally happens in Russia and in every other undemocratic country as well - the quest for a scapegoat won't be long, either. The… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I definitely feel like I'm the scapegoat for a lot of The Process issues. — Jahlil Okafor Copy Share Image
It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of… — C.J. Sansom 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
I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
If you don't plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don't… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
They have no right to complain! If women were cool with knowing their man is cheating on them then they have no right to… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
