"To have a scapegoat, by definition, is not to know that we have him. It is to think we have a culprit."
René Girard, interviewed by David Cayley on CBC’s Ideas series. Source: David Cayley, “The Scapegoat: René Girard’s Anthropology of Violence and Religion,” IDEAS (March 5-9, 2001). Note that you will not find this quotation or the audio file that it comes from anywhere on the Internet. I had to pay fifty dollars Canadian for those five CDs. And worth every penny, too.
