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“The social group which the city represents is so strong that it draws men into sin which is hardly personal to them, but from which they cannot dissociate themselves even if they so desire. Individual virtues are engulfed by the sin of the city.”
— Jacques Ellul, book The Meaning of the City
Source: The Meaning of the City (1951), p. 67
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