Jacques Ellul Quotes

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Jacques Ellul

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: January 6, 1912 - May 19, 1994

Topics

TechnologyEfficiencyNewBecome

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

Joe DiMaggio

RomanticLongMeetingSoundBall

Awareness is the first key step in breaking the spell of your not-so-awesome financial 'reality.'

Jen Sincero

StepKeyFinancialRealityAwareness

I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.

Meredith Monk

AlwaysWithinUsFemaleBelieved

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

LoveOnlyTo LoveIncapacity

It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

Steve Jobs

PersonalityPeoplePotentialApple

You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.

Robin Wright

MoneyMeTearsBetterEnoughYou

This game of pretending that to be Never Trump doesn't lead to a President Hillary Clinton has to end.

Mike Gallagher

GameEndPresidentNeverPretending

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

Jose Rizal

PeopleSensitiveThemDelicacy

I grew up in this tiny town in Rhode Island, and we didn't have cable. We had three TV stations, and one of them would play old movies. That's what I would watch, and I always wanted to be, like, Myrna Loy in 'The Thin Man.'

Arden Myrin

ManPlayThreeMoviesIslandOld

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.

William Hurt

LifeTimeI AmGoKnowPrivilege

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

Peter M. Brant

ScienceArtSucceedProcessFinding

The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.

Peter DeFazio

FreedomUnitySecurityForceCannot

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