Rene Girard Quotes

When we judge, we are always in a psychic space wh... -Rene Girard

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

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This quote reflects on the nature of judgment, suggesting that it often occurs within a subjective and cyclical mental space. It implies that the act of judgment is influenced by personal biases and thought patterns.

We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.

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.

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

The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die, but on the rectification of that lie, which comes from the true God and which reopens channels of communication mankind itself had closed through self-imprisonment in its own violent cultures.

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