Jacques Ellul Quotes
Christianity, … welcomed at first among the religions of escape, changes into a religion that gives cohesion to society
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
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Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
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I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
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Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
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I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
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I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
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The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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'Menace II Society' itself was a groundbreaking film. It's definitely going to go in the vaults of classics in all of cinema. The Hughes Brothers created an incredible project. Just gave the world something a little different than what we had seen in previous films in that same genre.
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Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
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Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.
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Only cream and SOBs rise to the top.
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I'm quite tame as touring musicians go.
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Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are at risk, regardless of how they got there or whether they know God's name. Sometimes it comes as an extended human hand and sometimes as a bolt from the blue, but either way it opens a door in what looked for all the world like a wall. This is the way of life, and God alone knows how it works.
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Christianity, … welcomed at first among the religions of escape, changes into a religion that gives cohesion to society
