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The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

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Jacques Ellul
Age: 82 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 6
Died: 1994
Died: May 19
French Resistance Fighter
Philosopher
Sociologist
Theologian
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We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians.
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(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth
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There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it. I must, first say very simply what anarchy I have in view. By anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence.
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No technique is possible when men are free. Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that technique prevail over the human being.
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The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.
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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 of science and only a short period of time
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Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
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To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence.
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It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence. The whole structure of society implies it, of necessity. The more we mobilize the forces of nature, the more must we mobilize men and the more do we require order.
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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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Propaganda begins when dialogue ends.
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When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them
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Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.
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Again I want to emphasize that the study of propaganda must be conducted within the context of a technological society. Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments, and to integrate the individual into a technological world.
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The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.
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Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
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The will of the world is always a will to death, a will to suicide. We must not accept this suicide, and we must so act that it cannot take place.
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Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
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Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.
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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 but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
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