Sentences with phrase «against authoritarianism»

Several recurring thematic elements are common to a number of Hauff's movies, such as the struggle of an individual against authoritarianism, whether perpetrated by a parent (as in Paule Pauländer (1976)-RRB-, a community (Mathias Kneissl (1970)-RRB-, an institution (Die Verrohung des Franz Blum (The Brutalization of Franz Blum, 1974), or the police and security apparatus of the state or society at large (Stammheim and Knife in the Head).

Science has indeed been an influence against authoritarianism, dogmatism, and intolerance, and has encouraged freedom of inquiry in general.

Not exact matches

«I'm probably reacting too strongly against the new authoritarianism of the Vatican.

Cynicism and moral anarchism, whether expressed in crimes against persons and property by the dispossessed or in self - interested manipulation by the better - off, are, if I read modern history right, more likely a prelude to authoritarianism if not fascism.

Parkman, like Foote, wrote history from a point of view: in Parkman's case, the Whiggish conviction that, when Wolfe defeated Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham in 1759, North America was won for liberty against popish authoritarianism.

The problem with the «Christ against culture» position is two-fold: first, strong reaction tends to increase the attractiveness of that which is banished; and second, the rejection of many cultural experiences tends to leave persons psychologically involuted, intellectually isolated, and spiritually subject to the pride and authoritarianism generated by any dogmatic and closed system.

In fact, the religious view considers the secularist «mechanical materialist view of reality as too reductionist and as leaving out the «organic» and «spiritual» dimensions of human being and history and therefore as unable to renew the values of humanism and its reverence for life and the dignity of the human person in society in the name of which secularism started to protest against religious authoritarianism.

Those who see it as authoritarianism pure and simple, a monolithic conspiracy against the «American way of life,» are frozen in their mold.

Although the books do sprinkle warnings against «legalism» and in favor of «context» throughout their pages, the overall message remains one of rigid, uncompromising parental authoritarianism toward even the tiniest newborn.

alleging that GFI has consistently exhibited «cultic tendencies,» including authoritarianism, isolationism, physical and emotional endangerment and hardball tactics used against naysayers.

Nicola Pratt discussed the competing wars of position being waged against the hegemonic system of authoritarianism in post-Mubarak Egypt, focusing on the realm of gender and women's rights.

Ekweremadu who stressed the need for the All Progressives Congress, APC led government to be cautious against the trampling of the opposition and total disregard for the rule of law in the guise of anti-corruption war, said that with this development, the country was fast descending into authoritarianism, adding that it spells doom on the nation's democracy.

Mr Hogan - Howe has a mild reputation for authoritarianism after he spoke out against the case brought against the Met for the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes and the downgrading of cannabis from class B to C.

Trump «doesn't seem to have an impulse against projecting an image of authoritarianism, which is new,» added Michael Macleod - Ball, chief of staff for the ACLU's Washington legislative office.

The film doesn't assume a polemical position regarding the death penalty — either for or against — though in the context of Singaporean authoritarianism it probably would have been banned, with writer - director Boo Junfeng imprisoned, had it taken an explicitly abolitionist stance.

His works often call into question issues of police violence and authoritarianism exercised against youth and communities of color, as well as highlight vernacular language, architecture, and food culture associated with the urban lexicon.

, and has become swept alone in the solidarity entrenching tide against «the man» (irony of ironies, since the most profound basis for that tide is severe authoritarianism and reactionaryism)

``... we argue that authoritarianism is the natural state of humanity»... the formation of an «elite warrior leadership» to «battle for the future of the earth» [p.xvi]... Chapter 9... «we might begin the process of constructing such real universities to train the ecowarriors to do battle against the enemies of life.