Quotes by : René Girard

My hypothesis is mimetic: because humans imitate one another more than animals, they have had to find....

The resistance to the mimetic contagion prevents the myth from taking shape. The conclusion in the light....

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....

We can understand why one of the titles given to Jesus is that of ‘prophet.’ Jesus is the last and....

If the Gospels were mythical themselves, they could not provide the knowledge that demythologizes mythology.....

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

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....