Jacques Ellul Quotes

Television is an important part of how we communicate.

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.

There were no bubbles before there were media.

It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Entertainment and information work well together.

I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

Information has become the fundamental element of modern life.

Men knew little, formerly, of what was passing beyond ... their own immediate neighborhood, but now, through the ... newspapers ... town and country, state and nation, and the most distant parts of the world are brought together, and whatever is new, rare and important, is conveyed with rapidity to every reader ... set forth in the most succinct manner, and in a style adapted to the comprehension of all.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.

The media is so powerful.

If it wasn't for the Internet, I don't know where I'd be.

We are in the era when I go home and have dinner with my kids and put them to bed, and hours later I go to Twitter, and the world has changed.

Television has power.

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

The functional uses of machines and innovative computer programs is not to isolate us but, rather, to promote coexistence. If used properly, it brings us together, granting unimaginable opportunities, magnifying the most quintessential and exclusively human capabilities.

I think the Internet is the greatest invention since women.