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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…
• Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined…
• Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no…
• 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…
• Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct…
• What we are witnessing at the moment is a rearrangement of the world in an intermediate stage; the change is not in…
• Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered.…
• The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The…
• It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in…
• 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…

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