Jacques Ellul Citas

• Los cristianos nunca estuvimos destinados a ser normales. Siempre hemos sido santos alborotadores, siempre hemos sido creadores de incertidumbre, agentes de una dimensión incompatible con el statu quo; no aceptamos el mundo tal como es, sino que insistimos en que el mundo se convierta en lo que Dios quiere que sea. Y el Reino de Dios es diferente de los patrones de este mundo.

  Jacques Ellul

  Cambio, Dios, Cristiano

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• La sociedad tecnológica hace que aumente el número de personas que no pueden adaptarse al ritmo inhumano de la vida moderna con su énfasis en la especialización. Crece una clase de personas que no son explotables porque no merece la pena emplearlas ni siquiera por el salario mínimo. El progreso tecnológico inutiliza a categorías enteras de personas sin que sea posible mantenerlas con la riqueza producida por el progreso.

  Jacques Ellul

  Growing Up, Class, Numbers

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• The person who imagined that he could not be the victim of propaganda because he could distinguish truth from falsehood, is extremely susceptible to propaganda, because when propaganda does tell the truth, he is then convinced that it is no longer propaganda: moreover, his self-confidence makes him all the more vulnerable to attacks of which he is unaware.

  Jacques Ellul

  Self Confidence, Doe, Telling The Truth

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• Propaganda tries first of all to create conditioned reflexes in the individual so that certain words, signs, or symbols, even certain persons or facts, provoke unfailing reactions...The important thing is that when the time is ripe, the individual can be thrown into action by the utilization of the psychological levers that have been set up.

  Jacques Ellul

  Important, Trying, Levers

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• 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

  Men, Aim Of Life, Forgotten

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• Encerrado en su creación artificial, el hombre descubre que "no hay salida"; que no puede volver a perforar el caparazón de la tecnología para encontrar el antiguo medio al que estuvo adaptado durante cientos de miles de años . En nuestras ciudades ya no hay día ni noche ni calor ni frío. Pero hay superpoblación, esclavitud a la prensa y a la televisión, ausencia total de objetivos. Todos los hombres están constreñidos por medios externos a ellos a fines igualmente externos. Cuanto más se desarrolla el mecanismo técnico que nos permite escapar a la necesidad natural, más sometidos estamos a necesidades técnicas artificiales.

  Jacques Ellul

  Mean, Night, Men

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

  Jacques Ellul

  Goal, Belief, Opinion

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• La orquestación de la prensa, la radio y la televisión para crear un ambiente continuo, duradero y total hace que la influencia de la propaganda pase prácticamente desapercibida precisamente porque crea un ambiente constante.

  Jacques Ellul

  Television, Radio, Influence

  "Jan. 6, 1912: Birth of the Supreme Tech Skeptic", www.wired.com. January 5, 2009.

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• If the ruler wants to play the game by himself and follow secret policies, he must present a decoy to the masses. He cannot escape the mass; but he can draw between himself and that mass an invisible curtain, a screen, on which the mass will see projected the mirage of some politics, while the real politics are being made behind it.

  Jacques Ellul

  Real, Juegos, Jugar

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• La tecnología moderna se ha convertido en un fenómeno total para la civilización, la fuerza definitoria de un nuevo orden social en el que la eficiencia ya no es una opción, sino una necesidad impuesta a toda actividad humana.

  Jacques Ellul

  Technology, Order, Civilization

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• Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.

  Jacques Ellul

  Men, Doe, Propaganda

  "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes". Book by Jacques Ellul, translated by Konrad Kellen and Jean Lerner,, 1965.

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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

  Goal, Ends, Humanist

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• There is a limited elite that understands the secrets of their own techniques, but not necessarily of all techniques. These men are close to the seat of modern governmental power. The state is no longer founded on the 'average citizen', but on the ability and knowledge of this elite. The average man is altogether unable to penetrate technical secrets or governmental organization and consequently can exert no influence at all on the state.

  Jacques Ellul

  Men, Average, Organization

  "The Technological Society" by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, (p. 274), 1964.

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• 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.

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  Faith, People, Forever

  Jacques Ellul (2012). “Living Faith: Belief and Doubt in a Perilous World”, p.112, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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

  Jacques Ellul

  Able, Propaganda, Certain

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• Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.

  Jacques Ellul

  Victory, Related

  "The Technological Society" by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, (p. xxxii), 1964.

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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.

  Jacques Ellul

  Tools, Machines

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• Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.

  Jacques Ellul

  Prayer, Moments, Form

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• One thing, however, is sure: unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor, witness to their misery, then, infallibly, violence will suddenly break out. In one way or another 'their blood cries to heaven,' and violence will seem the only way out. It will be too late to try to calm them and create harmony.

  Jacques Ellul

  Christian, Blood, Heaven

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• Propaganda begins when dialogue ends.

  Jacques Ellul

  Propaganda, Ends, Dialogue

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• Los cristianos deben ser alborotadores, creadores de incertidumbre, agentes de una dimensión incompatible con la sociedad.

  Jacques Ellul

  Christian, Agents, Dimensions

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• The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

  Jacques Ellul

  Knowing, Library, Facts

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• For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live, and life, understood from the point of view of faith, has an extraordinary explosive force.

  Jacques Ellul

  Christian, Prayer, Views

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• No debemos convertir la Torá en Dios mismo, ni la Biblia en un "papa de papel". La Biblia es sólo el resultado de la Palabra de Dios. Podemos experimentar el retorno de la Palabra de Dios en el aquí y ahora, el retorno perpetuo de la Palabra de Dios real, viva e indiscutible que hace posible el acto de dar testimonio, pero nunca debemos pensar en la Biblia como una especie de talismán u oráculo constantemente a nuestra disposición que sólo tenemos que abrir y leer para estar en relación con la Palabra de Dios y con Dios mismo.

  Jacques Ellul

  Bible, Biblical, Thinking

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• Almost always, it is the conviction that 'I am right' or 'my cause is the cause of justice' that triggers violence. That is, ...the moment propaganda does its work, violence is unleashed. And violence can be reduced by countering this propaganda.

  Jacques Ellul

  Justice, Doe, Violence

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