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Necessity 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…
- 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…
- Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity… — Albert Einstein
- In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished… — Carl Sagan
- In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to… — Mark Twain
- Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. — Oscar Wilde
- I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- When they [the Church] have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and… — Roger Williams
- Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. — Edward Abbey