Crowd Quote 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…

— 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…

— René 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…

— 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…

— René Girard

Individualism is a formidable lie.

— Rene Girard

Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals.

— Rene Girard

Every time I could escape from Sunday church, I did, from the age of twelve until about thirty.

— 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…

— 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…

— René Girard

I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair.

— 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…

— René 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…

— René Girard