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Jacques Ellul

The biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism , to an irreducible dialogue (like that between king and prophet in Israel ), to antistatism, to a decentralizing of the relation, to an extreme relativizing of everything political, to an anti-ideology, to a questioning of all that claims either power or dominion (in other words, of all things political), and finally, if we may use a modern term, to a kind of " anarchism " (so long as we do not relate the term to the anarchist teaching of the nineteenth century).

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(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth

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Again I want to emphasize that the study of propaganda must be conducted within the context of a technological society. Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments, and to integrate the individual into a technological world.

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There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving.

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

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