Anarchy Quote by Jacques Ellul Download Open image ““[Politics] is always a means of conquering others and exercising power over them.”” — Jacques Ellul ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anarchy Christianity Nonviolence Politics
“It was easy to speak theoretically and idealistically about politics when one is seeking power. The demands of exercising it once it is won,… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.” — Ralph Miliband Copy Share Image
“For politics is not just about things necessary and eternal, nor is it just a matter of good judgment in a given situation. It… — Daniel Gross Copy Share Image
“politics is brutal because it engages the most fundamental human impulses for affection, honor, power, and fame. Great principles and grand visions are ennobling,… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext. — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“In politics, victory goes to those with cunning, mettle and deviousness, not those who have facts and principles on their side.” — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
“Similarly, those who have been weaned off the self-aggrandizing attractions of political power are those who can then best be entrusted with it.” — R.W.L. Moberly Copy Share Image
“Politics is economics by other means, and war is politics by other means.” — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to evil and… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“No society can last in conditions of anarchy. This is self-evident and I am in full agreement. But my aim is not the establishment… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
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… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
So far I'm still standing on 'Sons of Anarchy' but all the rest of the people on the show have me in their crosshairs… — Mitch Pileggi Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I think that if you run a big company, you've got to, four or five times a year, just say, 'Hey team, look, here's… — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell… — Daniel Morgan Copy Share Image
What a comfort it is to feel that amid the chaos and anarchy which sweep the surface, God is holding fast the foundations on… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
“An anarchist government somehow creates an impression in the hearts of citizens that no one cares.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Would you like to do something good for the future of the human race; well, start killing some of its powerful members. — William C. Brown Copy Share Image