Sentences with phrase «authoritarian social order»

«We are taught to become heterosexual,» and to refuse to accept that teaching is to strike a blow against an authoritarian social order.

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Wherever there are signs of widespread social discontent and / or the fear of war, we have the conditions in which people are ready to give their blind allegiance to a charismatic, authoritarian leader in the belief that he or she will be able to restore a more ordered and secure environment and save them from a much worse fate.

Moreover to dispute authoritarian ethics is not also thereby to commit oneself to a repudiation of every authorized social order and thus embrace anarchy.

In the late 8th century Mary Wollstonecraft perceived that raising questions about the role of women in society raised the issue of the nature of structural relationships as a whole and the destructiveness of authoritarian models of social order.

But the converse may also be true: as more things are done for the public good, like Saving the Planet, the greater the erosion of individual liberty, and the more authoritarian the state becomes in enforcing the social order.