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Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians. — Jacques Ellul

We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians. — Jacques Ellul

No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere. — Jacques Ellul

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

And an apprenticeship to whatever gadgetry is useful in a technical world — Jacques Ellul

Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact — Jacques Ellul

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible. — Jacques Ellul

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act. — Jacques Ellul

Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual. — Jacques Ellul

Propaganda begins when dialogue ends. (Quoted by Marshall McLuhan in McLuhan Hot & Cool) — Jacques Ellul

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor. — Jacques Ellul

The biblical God lets us make our own history, and goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures we concoct. — Jacques Ellul

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

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

The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself. — Jacques Ellul

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

The machine is a tool. But it is not a neutral tool. We are deeply influenced by the machine while using it. — Jacques Ellul

God is not an encyclopedia whose task it is to satisfy our curiosity. — Jacques Ellul

Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity. — Jacques Ellul

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

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. — Jacques Ellul

Fate operates when people give up — Jacques Ellul

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it. — Jacques Ellul

When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them — Jacques Ellul

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

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise ... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. — Jacques Ellul

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. — Jacques Ellul

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. — Jacques Ellul

Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one. — Jacques Ellul

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. — Jacques Ellul