Propaganda tries first of all to create conditioned reflexes in the individual so that certain words, signs, or symbols, even certain persons or fact…

- Jacques Ellul

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.

- Jacques Ellul

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief

- Jacques Ellul

If the ruler wants to play the game by himself and follow secret policies, he must present a decoy to the masses. He cannot escape the mass; but he c…

- Jacques Ellul

Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization…

- Jacques Ellul

The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually …

- Jacques Ellul

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option…

- Jacques Ellul

Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient m…

- Jacques Ellul

And an apprenticeship to whatever gadgetry is useful in a technical world

- Jacques Ellul