Jacques Ellul Quotes

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

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• I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each other... And, even though somebody might make a slight mistake, it's all real!

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Live
  • Real
  • Mistake

• The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Women
  • Money

• My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Women
  • Charity
  • Refugee

• I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Men
  • Art
  • Man

• I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Care

• It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Great
  • Women
  • Show

• We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Society
  • Free

• I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Women
  • Love
  • Know

• We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Men
  • Miracles
  • Odds

• Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Work
  • Women
  • Girl

• Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Live
  • Words
  • Best

• People were often good, and did good things, such as the things that had been done to help after Vesuvius erupted, but as soon as those same people were given any authority or power, they abused it, or ignored the human consequences of their actions. And the people who ended up suffering most were always the women, because they had no authority or power.

  

  Anthony Capella
  • Women
  • Power
  • Authority

• There is no greater ordeal for a gifted men than to raise a son

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Men
  • Son
  • Gifted

• There's such an arrogance to savers sometimes. And I'm a saver, so I can say that.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Arrogance
  • Saver

• What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Power

• The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Praise
  • Embarrassed
  • Assistance

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

  

  Jacques Ellul
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