Sentences with phrase «absolute control over the people»

Perhaps Stalin (raised Catholic) and Mao (raised Buddhist) were atheists, but it seems more likely they just rejected anything that threatened their state's absolute control over the people.

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The latter referred to the absolute control that a person's own moral nature was said to exert over his volitions.
When persons have no legal rights, governments have absolute control over them.
Virtually no - one believes in absolute free markets (at a bare minimum, most people agree that courts should enforce a contract signed between 2 individuals or companies), and virtually no - one believes in complete state control of everything - even the USSR and China had significant amounts of private control over collectivised farms and allowed private farming as well for most of their history.
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