Rene Girard Quotes

Rene Girard
French Historian
Born: Dec 25, 1923
Died: Nov 4, 2015
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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 doing the right thing. Rene Girard
You Doing The Right Thing Will Party Believe Right Thing Scapegoat Someone Because Doing The Right Thing Aware Right Thing Third
When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match. Rene Girard
You World Fire Single Able Match Going Whole Thing Set
We don't even know what our desire is. We ask other people to tell us our desires. We would like our desires to come from our deepest selves, our personal depths - but if it did, it would not be desire. Desire is always for something we feel we lack. Rene Girard
People Other Our Tell Would Something Feel Come Like Know Always Selves Did Personal Lack Ask Us Depths Even Deepest Desire Desires
Paradoxically, we have become so ethnocentric in our relativism that we feel it is only okay for others - not us - to think their religion is superior! Rene Girard
Religion Superior Become Think Others Our Relativism Okay Paradoxically Only Feel Us
Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals. Rene Girard
Bible Blame Hide Systematically Blaming Myths Instead Gospels Reveals Victimization Victims
Learning that we have a scapegoat is to lose it forever and to expose ourselves to mimetic conflicts with no possible resolution. Rene Girard
Learning Lose Ourselves Possible Scapegoat Forever Conflicts Expose Resolution
The protective system of scapegoats is finally destroyed by the Crucifixion narratives as they reveal Jesus' innocence and, little by little, that of all analogous victims. Rene Girard
Innocence Finally Destroyed System Crucifixion Protective Reveal Narratives Victims Little Jesus
It doesn't take much insight to realize that wars have been getting worse every time - worse from the point of view of the civilian, more and more destructive, more and more total. Rene Girard
Time Every Every Time Worse Destructive Total Insight Civilian More More And More Point Point Of View Take Been Getting Realize Much View Wars
Terrorism is the vanguard of a general revenge against the West's wealth. Rene Girard
Terrorism Revenge Wealth Vanguard General West Against
When scandals proliferate, human beings become so obsessed with their rivals that they lose sight of the objects for which they compete and begin to focus angrily on one another. Rene Girard
Focus Become Lose Proliferate Sight Scandals Objects Rivals Obsessed Another Begin Human Human Beings Which Beings Compete
I think the most influential aspect of my work is to show that Judaism and Christianity exist in a continuity with archaic religions. Rene Girard
Work Think Christianity Religions Archaic Most Judaism Continuity Exist Influential Aspect Show
Western civilization is, no doubt, predominantly on the side of secular relativism. That is not true in the Islamic world, where faith dominates. Rene Girard
Faith World Secular Doubt Side Relativism No Doubt Civilization True Islamic Islamic World Western Western Civilization Where
Humanity is the child of religion. Rene Girard
Religion Humanity Child
Salvation lies in imitating Christ, in other words, in imitating the 'withdrawal relationship' that links him with his Father... To listen to the Father's silence is to abandon oneself to his withdrawal, to conform to it. Rene Girard
Relationship Silence Words Christ Father Other Imitating Abandon Lies Oneself Withdrawal Him His Links Salvation Listen In Other Words Conform
The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates. Rene Girard
Myth Machine Contagion Disappears Behind
When the Bible and the Gospels say that the victims should have been spared, they do not merely 'take pity' on them. They puncture the illusion of the unanimous victimization that foundational myths use as a crisis-solving and reordering device of human communities. Rene Girard
Bible Illusion Puncture Say Unanimous Take Myths Merely Device Gospels Been Human Pity Victimization Victims Them Spared Should Use Communities Foundational
On September 11, people were shaken, but they quickly calmed down. There was a flash of awareness, which lasted a few fractions of a second. People could feel that something was happening. Then a blanket of silence covered up the crack in our certainty of safety. Rene Girard
Silence People Safety Few September Down Awareness Lasted Our Shaken Something Could Blanket Feel Calmed Were Covered Up Quickly Crack Flash Happening Which Then Certainty Second Fraction
The sources of Islamism's strength include the fact that it is a response to the oppression of the Third World as a whole. Rene Girard
Strength Oppression World Response Fact Sources Whole Include Third Third World

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