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I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.

Jacques Ellul

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Jacques Ellul
Age: 82 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 6
Died: 1994
Died: May 19
French Resistance Fighter
Philosopher
Sociologist
Theologian
University Teacher
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Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
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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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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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Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.
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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 Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.
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It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when we boast of the continual decrease in human participation in technical operations.
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Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.
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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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For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.
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Am I a pessimist? Not at all. I am convinced that the history of the human race, no matter how tragic, will ultimately lead to the Kingdom of God. I am convinced that all the works of humankind will be reintegrated in the work of God, and that each of us, no matter how sinful, will ultimately be saved.
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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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Fate operates when people give up
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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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The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.
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The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.
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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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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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