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Mechanism Quotes by Jacques Ellul
- 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…
- Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exitâ€; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient…
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- I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters… — Warren Christopher
- The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought.… — Albert Einstein
- It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new… — Bernadette Roberts
- The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens… — Alfred Armand Montapert
- Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of… — Albert Bandura
- If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in… — Max Born
- I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by… — Naomi Watts
- In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star… — Victor Hugo