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Quotes from The Presence of the Kingdom — Jacques Ellul

1912–1994 France

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The will of the world is always a will to death, a will to suicide. We must not accept this suicide, and we must so act that it cannot take place.

The Presence of the Kingdom (1948)

People think that they have no right to judge a fact — all they have to do is to accept it.

The Presence of the Kingdom (1948)

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)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jacques Ellul (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.