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Each person must ask what his relationship is to the scapegoat. I am not aware of my own, and I am persuaded that the same holds true for my readers. We only have legitimate enmities. And yet the entire universe swarms with scapegoats.

~Rene Girard

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On September 11, people were shaken, but they quickly calmed down. There was a flash of awareness, which lasted a few fractions of a second. People could feel that something was happening. Then a blanket of silence covered up the crack in our certainty of safety.

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I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair.

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Every time I could escape from Sunday church, I did, from the age of twelve until about thirty.

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I do not read many periodicals, and I have little or no contact with progressive Christians, so I don't really know what goes on with them. It seemed to me that very often, the progressive Christianity was an initial step in de-Christianization, but this was probably unfair.

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I think the most influential aspect of my work is to show that Judaism and Christianity exist in a continuity with archaic religions.

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I am fundamentally an anthropologist and a rationalist. What I say is that human societies are very different from what specialists call 'animal society' because the former have religion.

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The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.

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Terrorism is the vanguard of a general revenge against the West's wealth.

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The sources of Islamism's strength include the fact that it is a response to the oppression of the Third World as a whole.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Historian

Born: December 25th, 1923

Died: November 4th, 2015

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