René Girard Quotes

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

Imitation is human intelligence in its most dynamic aspect.

In myth, violent death is always justified.

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

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