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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
Jacques Ellul
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Jacques Ellul
Age: 82 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 6
Died: 1994
Died: May 19
French Resistance Fighter
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Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge.
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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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Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
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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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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 between spontaneous activities and technique is catastrophic for the spontaneous activities.
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Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.
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Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.
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Almost always, it is the conviction that 'I am right' or 'my cause is the cause of justice' that triggers violence. That is, ...the moment propaganda does its work, violence is unleashed. And violence can be reduced by countering this propaganda.
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Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends.
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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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Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.
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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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In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
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The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.
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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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Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.
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All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
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It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.
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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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