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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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 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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'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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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
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In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
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Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.
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What wounded veteran's don't need is sympathy. THey need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.
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We are not fit for a place in God's family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild -- yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means.
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I never think about what I want. It's about what you want to give to other people.
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A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.
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Christianity, … welcomed at first among the religions of escape, changes into a religion that gives cohesion to society
