Jacques Ellul Quotes
Every modern state is totalitarian. It recognizes no limit either factual or legal. This is why I maintain that no state in the modern world is legitimate. No present-day authority can claim to be instructed by God, for all authority is set in the framework of a totalitarian state. This is why I decide for anarchy.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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Some people change when they think they're a star or something.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but not illogically, for reasons that could not have been anticipated.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
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What we can say for sure is that, at the very least, God calls every Christian to live with a missionary heart.
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When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience.
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All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?
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Every modern state is totalitarian. It recognizes no limit either factual or legal. This is why I maintain that no state in the modern world is legitimate. No present-day authority can claim to be instructed by God, for all authority is set in the framework of a totalitarian state. This is why I decide for anarchy.
