Brendan Dunleavy

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

“Still another and all-sufficient answer to the argument that the use of spirituous liquors tends to poverty, is that, as a general rule, it puts the effect before the cause. It assumes that it is the use of the liquors that causes the poverty, instead of its being the poverty that causes the use of the liquors.”
― Lysander Spooner, Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication

“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

“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