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Rene Girard

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

Rene Girard

Terrorism is the vanguard of a general revenge against the West’s wealth.

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Rene Girard

I am fundamentally an anthropologist and a rationalist. What I say is that human societies are very different from what specialists call ‘animal society’ because the former have religion.

– Rene Girard

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 with them. It seemed to me that very often, the progressive Christianity was an initial step in de-Christianization, but this was probably unfair.

– Rene Girard

Rene Girard

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

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Rene Girard

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

– Rene Girard

Rene Girard

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

Rene Girard

What I call a mimetic crisis is a situation of conflict so intense that on both sides people act the same way and talk the same way even though, or because, they are more and more hostile to each other.

– Rene Girard

Rene Girard

When we describe human relations, we usually make them better than they are: gentle, peaceful, and so forth, whereas in reality, they are often competitive.

– Rene Girard

Rene Girard

Society’s preservation against the unlimited violence of scandals lies in the mimetic coalition against the single victim and its ensuing limited violence. The violent death of Jesus is, humanly speaking, an example of this strange process.

– Rene Girard

Rene Girard

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

Rene Girard

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

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