Circumstances Quote by Jacques Ellul

“In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.”

Jacques Ellul

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The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because…

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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…

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Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians.

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The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief

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Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.

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Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

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Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

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