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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
The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.
— 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
Propaganda begins when dialogue ends. (Quoted by Marshall McLuhan in McLuhan Hot & Cool)
— Jacques Ellul
Propaganda ceases where simple dialogue begins.
— Jacques Ellul
I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history .
— 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
Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.
— Jacques Ellul
Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve .
— Jacques Ellul
The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.
— Jacques Ellul
Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.
— Jacques Ellul
Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.
— Jacques Ellul
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
— Jacques Ellul
The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.
— Jacques Ellul
Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.
— Jacques Ellul
Fate operates when people give up
— 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
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
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
