Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered.… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
What we are witnessing at the moment is a rearrangement of the world in an intermediate stage; the change is not in… — 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
Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live,… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined… — 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
Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
