Jacques Ellul Quotes

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

Jacques Ellul

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• The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Book
  • Success

• The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • House
  • Beginning
  • Voice

• I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • She
  • Mother
  • New York

• My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Great
  • Family
  • Love

• I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Love
  • History

• Professional competitions are overrated.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Professional
  • Competitions

• He who can believe himself well, will be well.

  

  Ovid
  • Believe
  • Will
  • Well

• Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Come
  • Disappear
  • Many

• But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Up
  • Character
  • End

• Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Me
  • Successful
  • Industry

• People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

  

  Florence King
  • People
  • American
  • Age

• Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • World
  • Character
  • Emotions

• Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Money
  • Art
  • Design

• There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Justice

• When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Friends
  • True
  • Know

• Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Person

• I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Time
  • Way
  • Friend

• Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• I'm a big Aqua fan. 'Barbie Girl' was a big deal growing up.

  

  Allison Williams
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• In a big picture sense, it's more national prestige that we're risking. You know, we are proud of our space program, but as we were talking earlier, the average American doesn't think that much about it right now. So, it may seem like something we could just give up and not really worry about it, but I think it starts creeping into the national psyche. If American astronauts have to hitch rides with the Russians or other nations in the future.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • May
  • American

• I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Cold
  • Bitter

• I love finishers.

  

  Jon Gruden

• Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact, there should be a marked absence of perfection in a muse--a gaping hole between what she is and what she might be. The ideal muse is a woman whose rough edges and contradictions drive you to fill in the blanks of her character. She is the irritant to your creativity. A remarkable possibility, waiting to be formed.

  

  Kathleen Tessaro
  • Character
  • Creativity
  • Wrong

• It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

  

  Jacques Ellul