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Jacques Ellul Quotes: Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.
         

Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.


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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.

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.



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.

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.



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.

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.



The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief



No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.

No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.



When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we find indeterminate or purely mystical vocation.

When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we find indeterminate or purely mystical vocation.



The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.



Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.

Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.



Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.



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.

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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Americans are so tightly wound, the way they kill themselves to get ahead. It's no way to live, I tell you.



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Only God is not limited in anything.



In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.



It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace." "It doesn't feel very all right." "That's because it's not the end.

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The magic of life, of course, is not something that can be explained. Structures can only take us to the point where they begin or end. Beyond structures is the white light.

The magic of life, of course, is not something that can be explained. Structures can only take us to the point where they begin or end. Beyond structures is the white light.



Greg starts a middle school and asks: Why is "bullies" such a big PROBLEM? And says people need to shave twice a day.

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Leadership isn't answering the questions others ask. Leadership is asking others to answer their own questions.




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