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Evangelical proclamation was essentially subversive. Put in danger by it, the forces of the social body have replied by integrating this power of negation, of challenge, by absorbing it.
The Subversion of Christianity (1984)
Without the scientific research of modern psychology and sociology there would be no propaganda, or rather we still would be in the primitive stages of propaganda that existed in the time of Pericles or Augustus.
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1962)
This is why I decide for anarchy.
The Ethics of Freedom (1973)
I believe that the anarchist fight, the struggle for an anarchist society, is essential, but I also think that the realizing of such a society is impossible.
Anarchy and Christianity (1988)
The search for justice before God, the measuring of technique by other criteria than those of technique itself—these were the great obstacles that Christianity opposed to technical progress.
The Technological Society (1964)
We must unmask the ideological falsehoods of the many powers, and especially we must show that the famous theory of the rule of law which lulls the democracies is a lie from beginning to end.
Anarchy and Christianity (1988)
There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it. I must, first say very simply what anarchy I have in view. By anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence. Hence I cannot accept either nihilists or anarchists who choose violence as a means of action.
Anarchy and Christianity [Anarchie et Christianisme (1988)
The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.
The Technological Society (1954)
...because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1962)
My ultimate vision is always positive. Hasty reading allows of rash judgments.
What I Believe (1987)
"Righteous Abel," says Matthew [23:34-45]. What luck! So there is a righteous race! No such thing: Abel dies leaving no children, a fact full of meaning. He is unable to transmit his righteousness.
The Meaning of the City (1951)
Men have never been so oppressed as in societies which set man at the pinnacle of values and exalt his greatness or make him the measure of all things. For in such societies freedom is detached from its purpose, which is, we affirm, the glory of God.
The Ethics of Freedom (1973)
It would finally be much easier for me to say what I do not believe than what I do believe.
What I Believe (1987)
True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they will be integrated into the mathematical reality merely as appearances!
The Technological Society (1954)
Christianity, … welcomed at first among the religions of escape, changes into a religion that gives cohesion to society
The Subversion of Christianity (1984)
In one of the temptations Satan offers to give Jesus all the kingdoms of the world, that is, the kingdoms and the related political power. …
The Subversion of Christianity (1984)
It is true that discussion is allowed within the system. But the quarrels between right and left seem to me completely futile, for in every possible way they simply lead to an enhancement of the power of the state.
The Ethics of Freedom (1973)
This is the very heart of modern religion, the religion of the established fact, the religion on which depend the lesser religions of the dollar, race, or the proletariat, which are only expressions of the great modern divinity, the Moloch of fact.
The Presence of the Kingdom (1948)
Set up a marginal society which will not be interested in such things, in which there will be no power, authority or hierarchy. Do not do things as they are usually done in society, which you cannot change. Create another society on another foundation.
Anarchy and Christianity (1988)
But my aim is not the establishment of an anarchist society or the total destruction of the state. Here I differ from anarchists. I do not believe that it is possible to destroy the modern state.
The Ethics of Freedom (1973)