Sentences with phrase «believed by communists»

The ignorance bred by religion regarding what human beings as containing a ghost in the machine led the way for the misconceptions believed by communists regarding human beings as blank slates, since both religion and communists envisioned human beings in this flawed conceptual manner, denying the evolved components of the brain and the innate nature we are born with due to our genetic make up.

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I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

In his samizdat essay of 1978, «The Power of the Powerless,» Havel argued that the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia exerted power not just through brute force but even more pervasively through lies that were reinforced by citizens who did not believe the lies but nevertheless went along with them.

Guatemalan fundamentalists remain unmoved by such suffering, for they believe the Indians are «demon - possessed» because so many of them are Catholics (at least nominally) And since demons are associated with communists, the Indians are subversives, too.

We do not believe by ourselves, as individuals in isolation; we believe as part of a community of believers, whether the community is a Benedictine monastery, a communist cell, a Protestant congregation, a Jewish minyan or a Hindu ashram.

Even granted the unspeakable crimes committed in the 20th century by communist nations (a close inspection of the history of the century, however, would disclose that such societies have had no monopoly on unspeakable crimes) the morbid anti-Communism of the American right, and the tendency to assimilate every kind of socialist or even liberal position to that of Communism, indicates, I believe, some serious failure to come to terms with the balance between dependence and independence, solidarity and autonomy, that are part of any mature personality or society.

Gus Hall, general secretary of the Communist Party in the U.S., died at age ninety, and Victor Navasky, editor of The Nation, memorializes him on the op - ed page of the New York Times by attacking J. Edgar Hoover, who believed that Hall was an agent of the Soviet Union, which he was.

The straight - faced emphasis given by Moscow Radio to Titov's «discovery» suggests that there must be high - ups in the Communist Party who really believe that if God existed he would be readily visible to any space pilot

No one believes Liam when he starts raving about a lookalike haunting his periphery, but his radical communist - leaning son happily analyzes the rich man's crisis in line after line of overwritten dialogue: After calling Liam a «victim of internal contradictions of capitalism,» he diagnoses the doppelganger as «a projection of the part of you that you hate,» then delights in being in a «story by Kafka» when father and son go hunting for the mystery man through the vomit - strewn streets of Dublin.

Your leaders will lead you to believe that the Slovenian people love you, that you are being attacked only by «tiny numbers of communists.»

Arnaud believes it's a fascinating beach, surrounded by working class communities that give a nod to Estonia's communist past; an industrial port with abandoned warehouses to the east and richer suburbs and wealthy gated properties on the western side that show a more prosperous country today.

Does anyone really believe that stats put out by the Communist Chinese government are believable?