Jacques Ellul Quotes
Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I don't like possessions.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
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Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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We should all love animals.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.
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In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world - cold, hard, concrete materialistic reality. If you want to look at it in terms of poetry, there was surrealism and objectivism. Now there's the veil of the virtual in between. The old opposition between inner and outer doesn't quite capture it, especially as it contains elements of both. It's real but not concrete.
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It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.
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All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow.
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I love to fight. I love the preparation. I love to learn new things, always overcoming myself.
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What is not heartrending is superfluous, at least in music.
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Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.
