# I See Satan Fall Like Lightning  ## Metadata - Author: [[René Girard, James G. Williams]] - Full Title: I See Satan Fall Like Lightning - Category: #books ## Highlights - One always desires whatever belongs to that one, the neighbor. (Page 9) - The children repeat the crimes of their fathers precisely because they believe they are morally superior to them. (Page 20) - From the anthropological aspect the Cross is the moment when a thousand mimetic conflicts, a thousand scandals that crash violently into one another during the crisis, converge against Jesus alone. (Page 21) - There is no real subject within this mimetic contagion, and that is finally the meaning of the title "prince of this world," if it is recognized that Satan is the absence of being. (Page 69) - Satan is mimetic contagion as its most secret power, the creation of the false gods out of the midst of which Christianity emerged. (Page 70) - The peoples of the world do not invent their gods. They de ify their victims. (Page 70) - Reports of collective violence are intelligible in inverse proportion to the degree of transformation they have undergone. The most transformed are the myths, and the least transformed of all is the Passion of Christ, the only account that completely reveals the cause of violent unanimity, which is mimetic contagion, the contagion of violence. (Page 74)