Freedom Is Completely Without Meaning Unless It

Totalitarianism Extends To Whatever Touches It...psychological Technique, As It Operates In The Army Or In A Great Industrial Plant, Entails A Direct Action On The Family. It Involves A Psychological Adaptation Of Family Life To Military Or Industrial Methods, Supervision Of Family Life, And Training Family Life For Military Or Industrial Service. Technique Can Leave Nothing Untouched In A Civilization. Everything Is Its Concern. Technique, Which Is Destroying All Other Civilizations, Is More Than A Simple Mechanism: It's A Whole Civilization In Itself.

Because Of The Myth Of Progress, It Is Much Easier To Sell A Man An Electric Razor Than A Straight-edged One.

The Individual Who Is The Servant Of Technique Must Be Completely Unconscious Of Himself.

I Believe That The Biblical Teaching Is Clear. It Always Contests Political Power. It Incites To "counterpower," To "positive" Criticism, To An Irreducible Dialogue (like That Between King And Prophet In Israel), To Antistatism, To A Decentralizing Of The Relation, To An Extreme Relativizing Of Everything Political, To An Anti-ideology, To A Questioning Of All That Claims Either Power Or Dominion (in Other Words, Of All Things Political), And Finally, If We May Use A Modern Term, To A Kind Of "anarchism" (so Long As We Do Not Relate The Term To The Anarchist Teaching Of The Nineteenth Century).

Our Civilization Is First And Foremost A Civilization Of Means; In The Reality Of Modern Life, The Means, It Would Seem, Are More Important Than The Ends.