Quotes by : René Girard

The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical....

In myth, violent death is always justified.

The essence of desire is to have no essential goal. Truly to desire, we must have recourse to people....

The world’s myths do not reveal a way to interpret the Gospels, but exactly the reverse: the Gospels....

Our concern for victims is the secular mask of Christian love.

The experience of death is going to get more and more painful, contrary to what many people believe.....

The commandment to imitate Jesus does not appear suddenly in a world exempt from imitation; rather it....

The most powerful anti-Christian movement is the one that takes over and "radicalizes" the concern for....

If we choose Jesus as our model, we simultaneously choose his own model, God the Father. Having no appropriative....

Imitation is human intelligence in its most dynamic aspect.