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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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Jacques Ellul
Age: 82 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 6
Died: 1994
Died: May 19
French Resistance Fighter
Philosopher
Sociologist
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I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.
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Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.
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Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.
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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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The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.
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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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