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Civilization Quotes by Jacques Ellul
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
- For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live, and life, understood…
- Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.
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