Jacques Ellul Quotes
I can very well say without hesitation that all those who have political power, even if they use it well have acquired it by demonic mediation and even if they are not conscious of it, they are worshippers of diabolos.
Jacques Ellul
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'Rourke
I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
Francesca Annis
When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.
Warren Beatty
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
Natasha Little
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
J. D. Souther
We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
Naomi Wolf
We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
Daniel Boone
Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
Queen Rania of Jordan
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
Jack Kerouac
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
Daniel Barenboim
You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
T. J. Miller
Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
Daniel Craig
I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.
Chelsea Peretti
Football, played at its highest level, is catastrophic. Even relatively minor afflictions are grotesque and bookworthy.
Steve Rushin
The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.
Tariq Ramadan
People tend to see power carried out by conspiracy. It's easy to believe in.
Alexander Mamut
There is a Power in the universe greater than you are, and you can use it.
Ernest Holmes
I can very well say without hesitation that all those who have political power, even if they use it well have acquired it by demonic mediation and even if they are not conscious of it, they are worshippers of diabolos.
Jacques Ellul
