Quotes by : René Girard

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

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.

Only two possible reactions to the mimetic contagion exist, and they make an enormous difference. Either....

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....

Imitation is human intelligence in its most dynamic aspect.