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

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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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Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.
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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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Propaganda begins when dialogue ends.
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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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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.
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