--- title: "4 Anarchism Quotes By Jacques Ellul" description: "4 Anarchism quotes by Jacques Ellul. Plus more from Jacques Ellul and more Anarchism sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b6/jacques-ellul-4407_quote_no-society-can-last-in-conditions-of-ana_108686.jpg" --- > [“No society can last in conditions of anarchy. This is self-evident and I am in full agreement. But my aim is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/no-society-can-last-in-conditions-of-anarchy-this-is-self-evident-and/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b6/jacques-ellul-4407_quote_no-society-can-last-in-conditions-of-ana_108686.jpg) > [There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it. I must, first say very simply what anarchy I have in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/there-are-different-forms-of-anarchy-and-different-currents-in-it-i/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/163/jacques-ellul-4407_absolutes_there-are-different-forms-of-anarchy-and_1314252.jpg) > [If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/if-i-rule-out-violent-anarchism-there-remains-pacifist-anti/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/993/jacques-ellul-4407_all-kinds_if-i-rule-out-violent-anarchism-there-re_2717166.jpg) > [I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/i-believe-that-the-biblical-teaching-is-clear-it-always-contests/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b60/jacques-ellul-4407_all-things_i-believe-that-the-biblical-teaching-is_2960901.jpg) ## Other authors on Anarchism - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-emma-goldman-33179.jpg) Emma Goldman 37 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchism/emma-goldman/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-murray-bookchin-69610.jpg) Murray Bookchin 23 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchism/murray-bookchin/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchism/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-april-gornik-14426.jpg) Rudolf Rocker 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchism/rudolf-rocker/) - [Errico Malatesta 12 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchism/errico-malatesta/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-benjamin-tucker-17200.jpg) Benjamin Tucker 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchism/benjamin-tucker/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-voltairine-de-cleyre-94067.jpg) Voltairine de Cleyre 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchism/voltairine-de-cleyre/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-howard-zinn-42481.jpg) Howard Zinn 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchism/howard-zinn/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-ernst-junger-33887.jpg) Ernst Jünger 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchism/ernst-junger/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-david-graeber-27506.jpg) David Graeber 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchism/david-graeber/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-pierrejoseph-proudhon-75664.jpg) Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchism/pierre-joseph-proudhon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-johannes-von-tepl-50817.jpg) Anup Joshi 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchism/anup-joshi/) ## More by Jacques Ellul > [The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/the-individual-by-means-of-the-discipline-imposed-on-him-by-sport-not/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) > [Propaganda begins when dialogue ends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/propaganda-begins-when-dialogue-ends/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/christians-were-never-meant-to-be-normal-we-ve-always-been-holy/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) > [It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to evil and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/it-is-inconceivable-that-the-god-who-gives-himself-in-his-son-to-save/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) > [Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/technological-society-leads-to-increasing-numbers-of-people-who/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) > [It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/it-is-the-multiplication-of-men-who-are-exluded-from-working-which/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) > [The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/the-orchestration-of-press-radio-and-television-to-create-a/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/no-society-can-last-in-conditions-of-anarchy-this-is-self-evident-and/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/the-qualities-which-technique-requires-for-its-advance-are-precisely/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) > [Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/education-no-longer-has-a-humanist-end-or-any-value-in-itself-it-has/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) > [The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/the-goal-of-modern-propaganda-is-no-longer-to-transform-opinion-but/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) > [Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/freedom-is-completely-without-meaning-unless-it-is-related-to/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) > [When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/when-there-is-propaganda-we-are-no-longer-able-to-evaluate-certain/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) > [True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/true-technique-will-know-how-to-maintain-the-illusion-of-liberty/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) > [No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/no-one-knows-where-we-are-going-the-aim-of-life-has-been-forgotten/) [Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchism/jacques-ellul/#itemlist", "name": "4 Anarchism Quotes By Jacques Ellul", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“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 of an anarchist society or the total destruction of the state. Here I differ from anarchists. I do not believe that it is possible to destroy the modern state. It is pure imagination to think that some day this power will be overthrown. From a pragmatic standpoint there is no chance of success. 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