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Humans 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.
- Am I a pessimist? Not at all. I am convinced that the history of the human race, no matter how tragic, will ultimately lead to…
- Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
- All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God…
- 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…
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle