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Technique 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…
- What we are witnessing at the moment is a rearrangement of the world in an intermediate stage; the change is not in the use of…
- 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…
- 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…
- Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science.... This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only a single category…
- It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.
- Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.
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- The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt… — Bertrand Russell
- Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power… — Bertrand Russell
- The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea. The technique itself doesn't… — Terry Gilliam
- I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. — Amitabh Bachchan
- Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. — Leonard Bernstein
- Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't… — John Bolton
- Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. — Jean de la Bruyere
- The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. — Pablo Casals