Brendan Dunleavy

“To be effective, propaganda must constantly short-circuit all thought and decision. It must operate on the individual at the level of the unconscious. He must not know that he is being shaped by outside forces...but some central core in him must be reached in order to release the mechanism in the unconscious which will provide the appropriate - and expected - action.”
― Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes

“Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?’
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that too.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“[Politics] is always a means of conquering others and exercising power over them.”
― Jacques Ellul, Anarchy and Christianity

“A major fact of our present civilization is that more and more sin becomes collective, and the individual is forced to participate in collective sin.”
― Jacques Ellul, Presence of the Kingdom