Jacques Ellul

“By definition, the big city has no exterior.”

“Nothing is less neutral than technology.”

“Propaganda is a set of methods employed by an organized group that wants to bring about the active or passive participation in its actions of a mass of individuals.”

“Technique has become autonomous; it has fashioned an omnivorous world which obeys its own laws and which has renounced all tradition.”

“Modern man's happy puppets are puppets who are unaware of their strings.”

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

“The machine is a social rather than a mechanical phenomenon.”

“The individual who is a member of a mass is no longer an individual; he is a particle of that mass.”

“Technique is the translation into action of man's concern to master things by means of reason.”

“To be a Christian is to be a revolutionary.”

“It is the very nature of technique to compel the qualitative to be swallowed up by the quantitative.”

“The technological society is a society of means and not of ends.”

“Freedom is not in doing what you want, but in wanting to do what you must do.”

“Prayer is the expression of the highest freedom.”

“When man has no more meaning, anything is possible.”