“To the extent that propaganda is based on current news, it cannot permit time for thought or reflection. A man caught up… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“What seems to be one of the disasters of our time is that we all appear to agree that the nation-state is… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science.... This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work… — 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
Almost always, it is the conviction that 'I am right' or 'my cause is the cause of justice' that triggers violence. That… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Propaganda tries first of all to create conditioned reflexes in the individual so that certain words, signs, or symbols, even certain persons… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is… — 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
People think that they have no right to judge a fact - all they have to do is to accept it. Thus… — 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
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
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
