151 Quotes by Jacques Ellul

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

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

The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.

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

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

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

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

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

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