Jacques Ellul Quotes

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• So I can very well say without hesitation that all those who have political power, even if they use it well have acquired it by…
• Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
• The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of…
• To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption;…
• The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it…
• In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
• The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.
• It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.
• Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.
• No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of…
• 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 the…
• Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any other or, conversely,…
• Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.

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