Active Quote by Jacques Ellul

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

Propaganda begins when dialogue ends.

— Jacques Ellul

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

— Jacques Ellul

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

— Jacques Ellul

When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them

— Jacques Ellul