Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
No technique is possible when men are free. Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence.… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
There is a limited elite that understands the secrets of their own techniques, but not necessarily of all techniques. These men are… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Propaganda must not concern itself with what is best in man - the highest goals humanity sets for itself, its noblest and… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to evil and… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
“No society can last in conditions of anarchy. This is self-evident and I am in full agreement. But my aim is not the establishment… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The individual, in… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
