Jacques Ellul Quotes

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• We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is only the result of the…
• Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment…
• Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option…
• Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
• Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge.
• Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on the…
• What we are witnessing at the moment is a rearrangement of the world in an intermediate stage; the change is not in the use of…
• Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered. But the collision…
• 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 order…
• It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when we…
• The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief
• Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A class…
• According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer…
• Salvation is universal because the love of God encompasses all. If God is God and if God is love, nothing is outside the love of…
• Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.
• The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.
• If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a trivial existence in…
• Again I want to emphasize that the study of propaganda must be conducted within the context of a technological society. Propaganda is called upon to…
• Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.
• There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made.…

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