Top 76 Girard Quotes
#1. I love you, Jemmaline Girard. I always have and I always will. You are my future and my forever. You have already claimed the deepest part of my soul, femme de mon coeur.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#2. We condemn the Inquisition in the name of Christian values. After all, we can't condemn it in the name of the Mahabharata, which is comprised of a series of alternating murders, rather like the Iliad!
Rene Girard
#3. My mom's like me and she doesn't want to look weak in front of other people. And she's like Colby in the way that she has to take hits at other people whenever she feels threatened. That used to make me want to cave and do what she wants. But it doesn't anymore.
M-E Girard
#4. Why is it the most difficult to throw? Because it is the only one without a model. When
Rene Girard
#5. 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.
Rene Girard
#6. Vengeance succeeds in spanning generations and encompassing the world. It transcends time and space. One should not be surprised that in the ancient world vengeance was taken to be sacred.
Rene Girard
#7. You'll never reach the top (you won't even get out of the basement) if all you ever do is take on the role of victim. Forget about blaming other people for your failures and shortcomings.
Joe Girard
#8. The resistance to the mimetic contagion prevents the myth from taking shape. The conclusion in the light of the Gospels is inescapable: myths are the voice of communities that unanimously surrender to the mimetic contagion of victimization.
Rene Girard
#9. Only two possible reactions to the mimetic contagion exist, and they make an enormous difference. Either we surrender and join the persecuting crowd, or we resist and stand alone. The first way is the unanimous self-deception we call mythology.
Rene Girard
#10. If we ceased to desire the goods of our neighbor, we would never commit murder or adultery or theft or false witness. If we respected the tenth commandment, the four commandments that precede it would be superfluous.
Rene Girard
#12. The underground appeared in this novel as the failure and reversal of Christianity.
Rene Girard
#13. Every opportunity you create for yourself and the people around you, every thought or idea you share with the world, every conversation you have is a seed planted. A seed planted in your head. In other people's heads. Everywhere. #
Yann Girard
#14. The peoples of the world do not invent their gods. They deify their victims.
Rene Girard
#15. Far from being a paradox, this invitation is more reasonable than that of our modern gurus, who ask their disciples to imitate them as the great man or woman who imitates no one. Jesus, by contrast, invites us to do what he himself does, to become like him a perfect imitator of God the Father.
Rene Girard
#16. I know the difference between right and wrong. Right is when I do everything he tells me to. Wrong is when I question why. But every now and then a simple slap across the side of the head is a good way to remind me. - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#17. That's why he's called Legion - in a way he's the embodiment of the crowd. It's the crowd that comes out of him and goes and throws itself off of the cliff. We're witnessing the birth of an individual capable of escaping the fatal destiny of collective violence.
Rene Girard
#18. What Jesus invites us to imitate is his own desire, the spirit that directs him toward the goal on which his intention is fixed: to resemble God the Father as much as possible.
Rene Girard
#19. Instead of reorganizing the demoniac, rearranging it a bit, like a psychoanalyst, you do away with it entirely.
Rene Girard
#20. Victimism uses the ideology of concern for victims to gain political or economic or spiritual power.
Rene Girard
#21. Imitation is human intelligence in its most dynamic aspect.
Rene Girard
#22. What's the use of saying anything, when you're not even listening? - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#23. To escape responsibility for violence we imagine it is enough to pledge never to be the first to do violence. But no one ever sees himself as casting the first stone. Even the most violent persons believe that they are always reacting to a violence committed in the first instance by someone else.
Rene Girard
#25. Life on the street is simple. You eat. You don't eat. You sleep. You don't sleep. You're alive. You're dead. It's that simple! - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#26. Where the successful or failed dialogues between Christianity and other cultures are concerned, we could go on for hours.
Rene Girard
#27. I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.
Alexander Girard
#28. The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believeContrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way.
Alexander Girard
#29. It's okay to feel bad about how things went down, but it's not okay to drown in guilt and regret every day for having made decisions other people don't agree with. At some point, we all have to man up and decide to do what we have to do, despite the people around us who try to get in the way.
M-E Girard
#30. He thought against Napoleon, in both senses of the word. See how fruitful resentment can be, and how it can make one
Rene Girard
#31. Silence is the only conduct truly befitting a solipsist, the only one, however, that he cannot bring himself to adopt.
Rene Girard
#32. Sometimes you just have to be there to understand, even if being there makes no sense at all. - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#33. Sometimes you wonder why you're out here. And the stupid thing about it, is you haven't got an answer. - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#34. War is a total social phenomenon. In this respect, Clausewitz's analysis is a precursor of Durkheim's sociology. Clausewitz has things to teach us about "mass" violence and contagion.
Rene Girard
#35. In myth, violent death is always justified.
Rene Girard
#36. Life's just another blowjob. And just because I let you cum in my mouth, doesn't mean I'm going to swallow it! - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#38. The one key line used by a very rich Hudson salesman: Would you like to buy a car now, without waiting?
Joe Girard
#39. Sometimes you have to stop and ask yourself who's really stupid, the guys who stop and pick you up, or you, for being out here in the first place? - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#40. People should just be allowed to look in the mirror and see all kinds of possibilities.
M-E Girard
#41. It is not difference that dominates the world, but the obliteration of difference by mimetic reciprocity, which itself, being truly universal, shows the relativism of perpetual difference to be an illusion.
Rene Girard
#42. Selling yourself does not mean boasting about your accomplishments but rather demonstrating security in your goals and your lifestyle so your "customers" feel success and want to emulate it
Joe Girard
#43. If the Gospels were mythical themselves, they could not provide the knowledge that demythologizes mythology.
Rene Girard
#44. I must be really ugly or something, because nobody wants me. Not even God wants me. That's why he makes me stand out here in the cold. - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#45. Today I'm going to pretend I'm dead. I wonder if anyone will notice. - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#46. Look back to learn how to look forward.
Joe Girard
#47. Our concern for victims is the secular mask of Christian love.
Rene Girard
#48. Moralists advise us all to avoid violence, of course, but only insofar as this is possible. They authorize us, at least tacitly, to reply to obvious provocations by the measured counterviolence that I described earlier, and which seems to us always justified.
Rene Girard
#49. Out here everybody abuses everybody. It's just the way it is. So you'd better get used to it. - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#50. Here, economists will recognize the principle of price differentiation formulated by the engineer-economist Jules Dupuit in 1849: "To set a price for a service, don't base it on what it costs the provider, but instead set the price according to the importance of the service to the user."[10]
Bernard Girard
#51. The more one approaches madness, the more one equally approaches the truth, and if one does not fall into the former, one must end up necessarily in the latter.
Rene Girard
#52. Some primitive societies avoid striking out at the true guilty party because it might awaken the spirit of vengeance. Channeling violence toward a sacrificial victim as if toward a lightning rod doubtless stops violence, but it's not very pretty.
Rene Girard
#53. You know she's a liar if she says she's never done it for ten bucks. We've all done it. Practically giving it away. But sometimes you can't even give it away. - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#54. On the street there is no tomorrow. There is only here and now and nothing else. And yesterday is just another day you're trying to forget. - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#55. Every thing's for sale out here. Anything you want. About the only thing you can't buy is my dignity and self-respect, cause those were the first to go. And I gave them away for free. - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#56. But an absolute value is not proven by logic or metaphysical arguments; it is accepted, believed (even when not discussed), and hedged about with taboos to protect it.
Rene Girard
#57. Our unending discords are the ransom of our freedom.
Rene Girard
#58. The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs ... one step at a time.
Joe Girard
#59. The true threat to the world today comes from the mad ambitions of states and capitalists bent on destroying non-modern cultures. It is the so-called developed countries that plunder the planet's resources without showing the least concern for consequences they are incapable of foreseeing.
Rene Girard
#60. Love is a funny thing. It's not at all what you expect it to be. But if you have to stand out on the corner to prove it, then maybe it's better not to be in love at all. - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#61. Everywhere and always, when human beings either cannot or dare not take their anger out on the thing that has caused it, they unconsciously search for substitutes, and more often than not they find them.
Rene Girard
#62. Only in humans, alone among the animals, did violence make victim mechanisms necessary and bring them into being. If original sin created the problem of violence, it found a solution in archaic religion. The paradox of human cultures is that violence expels violence: Satan casts out Satan. MSB
Rene Girard
#63. The commandment that prohibits desiring the goods of one's neighbor attempts to resolve the number one problem of every human community: internal violence.
Rene Girard
#64. The important thing is to dare to dream big, then take action to make it come true.
Joe Girard
#65. The preference that cultures grant to themselves, in other words, must be perpetuated at any cost. This preference is inseparably bound up with the identity, the autonomy, the very existence of these cultures.
Rene Girard
#66. In a truly global world, the renunciation of violent reprisal is bound to become, in a more and more obvious way, the indispensable condition of our survival.
Rene Girard
#67. If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.
Stephen Girard
#68. Some people think it's a jungle out here. It's not ... It's a fucking zoo! - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#69. More and more, it seems to me, modern individualism assumes the form of a desperate denial of the fact that, through mimetic desire, each of us seeks to impose his will upon his fellow man, whom he
Rene Girard
#70. If you're going to give me something, give me something I'll miss.
excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#71. The essence of desire is to have no essential goal. Truly to desire, we must have recourse to people about us; we have to desire their desires.
Rene Girard
#72. Sometimes you get so tired of each day, you wish it was over. But it just goes on and on, like the silent prayers that forever go unanswered. - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#73. Precious had been a darling cat, too bad they'd had to get rid of her because she clashed with the furniture. Fortunately, the aquarium was a better fit.
Dara Girard
#74. If you do a lot of things to build business, you'll build business. They don't have to be done perfectly to work, although the better you do them, the better they'll work. But the main point is that you have to do them - a lot.
Joe Girard
#75. The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.
Rene Girard
#76. It is the Other whom one must love as oneself if one does not desire to idolize and hate the Other in the depths of the underground.
Rene Girard
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