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Jacques Ellul Quotes: 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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