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For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live, and life, understood from the point of view of faith, has an extraordinary explosive force.

Jacques Ellul

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Jacques Ellul
Age: 82 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 6
Died: 1994
Died: May 19
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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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And an apprenticeship to whatever gadgetry is useful in a technical world
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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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Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.
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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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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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Fate operates when people give up
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Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.
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I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.
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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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