Author: Rene Girard

Quotes

Learning that we have a scapegoat is to lose it forever and to expose ourselves to mimetic conflicts with no possible resolution.

Learning that we have a scapegoat is to lose it forever and to expose ourselves to mimetic conflicts with no possible resolution.

- Rene Girard

When we judge, we are always in a psychic space which is circular.

When we judge, we are always in a psychic space which is circular.

- Rene Girard

Western civilization is, no doubt, predominantly on the side of secular relativism. That is not true in the Islamic world, where faith dominates.

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

More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.

More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.

- Rene Girard

Humanity is the child of religion.

Humanity is the child of religion.

- Rene Girard

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!

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

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