Sentences with phrase «for totalitarianism»

Greenpeace wants to price the poor off the roads, which will be «a good day for totalitarianism.»

Something that aligned with my love of democracy and disdain for totalitarianism and censure.

I have a feeling that Hero is perceived in the PRC as a justification for totalitarianism.

But is this not a weakness within Hegel's political philosophy since it provides, however unintentionally, a justification for totalitarianism within the State?

One must not forget that the scriptures tell tales of satanic crowds rising above our folds» Christian constabularies and in their controlled leveraging, they set the word's stage up for unifications of villainous servitudes all waging for totalitarianism values at the behest of an anti-Christian «demonocracies» we know to be as democracies.

Not exact matches

His ban from visiting Britain in June 2009 has made him the «poster child» for free speech, not only for Americans concerned about the cultural shift towards totalitarianism and their rights to freedom of expression, but for people around the globe.

It was the Catholicism that successfully met the challenge of twentieth - century totalitarianism, and in its last stages, helped prepare the ground for the Second Vatican Council.

Perhaps the best answer to the charge that she failed to credit Alfred Kazin for his editorial work on The Origins of Totalitarianism is in Kazin's own words.

This interior work of repentance for my own sins has transformed my fight against totalitarianism.

Now, totalitarianism would be if 1 single individual, had decided what health care would cover, and mandated that everyone would follow the ruling, without any input or chance for rebutal / change from any other party.

In 2007, on the hundredth anniversary of Pius X's anti-Modernist encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Peter Steinfels used his column in the New York Times to suggest that the encyclical was a «revival of the battle against liberalism that the papacy and much of the church had been waging throughout the nineteenth century — and tragically the purge the encyclical started crippled those very elements in European Catholicism that might have resisted the Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World War I, when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.»

Central and eastern Europe didn't break free of the shackles of totalitarianism without trying, failing, and then trying again: It took a critical mass of people, determined to «live in the truth» no matter how difficult, to implode the communist culture of the lie and give a new birth of freedom to the lands Stalin claimed as his prize for helping beat Hitler.

As if the depression had not been difficult enough for the liberal theologian to process, the ascent of both Hitler and Mussolini heralded a new totalitarianism that shattered whatever self - confidence remained.

Whether in the form of totalitarianism or of self - effacing loyalty to political parties, it represents the desire of this age to fly «from the demanding «ever anew»» of personal responsibility «into the protective «once for all»» of membership in a group.

Despite a long tradition of acknowledging conscience, the failure of recent equality and other legislation to make room for conscience and the observance of faith at the work place and elsewhere is yet another feature of an attempted totalitarianism.

At the same time it rebuked the pastors for opposing not Nazi totalitarianism in tow but only its encroachments on organized religion; they were making a truly heroic stand, but «the cause which they champion is not the fully Christian ideal» (February 7, 1934).

In The Origins of Totalitarianism she analyzes what happens when, by a combination of ideology and terror, an elitist government sets out systematically to destroy a citizenry's capacity for action.

Civil societies, for example, are relatively self - sustaining totalities, unified fields of activity for their human members; but they can not be considered even metaphorically as substances without the concomitant danger of totalitarianism, i.e., the radical subordination of individuals to the social whole.

Totalitarianism arises when a single individual or a minority group within the community presumes to speak and act for the entire membership without consulting the latter about their true interests and desires.

What paved the way, in her view, for Stalinist totalitarianism was the fact that Lenin and his followers soon abandoned the second part of the equation for the sake of the first.

for example, that the dignity of all persons ought to be respected, that tolerance is a virtue and discrimination is abhorrent, that peaceful resolution of conflicts is superior to violence, that generally truth - telling is superior to lying, that democratic government is morally superior to totalitarianism and authoritarianism, that one ought to give a day's work for a day's pay, that saving for one's own and one's country's future is better than squandering one's income and relying on others to attend to one's future needs.

The Pan-Slav and Pan-German movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were additional roots for Nazi and Stalinist totalitarianism, breaking open, as they did, the traditional notions of nationhood and territory.

Consider, for instance, Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism, first published in 1951 and now subjected to a thorough trashing by John Lukacs, writing in New Oxford Review.

2 For people like Niebuhr, totalitarianism abroad and racism at home provided the most immediate context for thinking about the reforms that a progressive Christianity might bring to civilizatiFor people like Niebuhr, totalitarianism abroad and racism at home provided the most immediate context for thinking about the reforms that a progressive Christianity might bring to civilizatifor thinking about the reforms that a progressive Christianity might bring to civilization.

Conservatives, for their part, suggest that the radicals» emphasis on justice rather than freedom conceals Marxist sympathies or at least a culpable naïveté about the evils of communist totalitarianism.

It may well mean a drift toward totalitarianism and various forms of collectivism — including communism — in states whose people are unprepared for democracy, or who find its processes too slow in giving them what they want.

Or will the forces pushing for «victory» and economic domination continue to make imperialism — that second major root of totalitarianism — a policy of our government?

Thus, we see a claim which makes sense of all the martyrdoms of our time: Martyrs today no longer die explicitly for Jesus Christ nor for the freedom of the Spirit as was the case in the first two periods we had considered, but they die for human justice, i.e., an urgent new action is needed to defend those who are overwhelmed by the weight of totalitarianism.

Totalitarianism is bad for the club.

The Duchess of Atholl, a Unionist MP soliciting support for her League of European Freedom, was politely rebuffed: «I belong to the left and must work within it, much as I hate Russian totalitarianism and its poisonous influence in this country».

Rejecting that totalitarianism is inherent in his call for equality of opportunity, Dr Swift emphasised the collective nature of the state which has always included an element of compulsion in a variety of areas.

Instead he wrote, in 1946 in «Why I Write» that «Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it», which was the argument for justice and liberty.

The odd peripheral items on screen - leaflets for the 2003 Stop the War demo, or the main protagonist's faded London 2012 sweater - contribute to making this one of the most innately credible depiction of Britain under totalitarianism ever seen on screen.

Schindler's List has been elevated above the status of a mere film and should be compulsory viewing for each new generation as a warning against racism and Totalitarianism.

This means Web Junkie is either a missed opportunity (despite the filmmakers» jaw - dropping access) or it's a bit of willful misdirection: Come for the Internet addiction, stay in awe of the totalitarianism!

The full panel was apparently a weird one (for starters, Stone said that Pokemon Go was a big step toward totalitarianism), but movie itself looks like a fairly straightforward examination of Snowden and his controversial actions.

Some of the critical comment about the film has been about how the comedy of political self - interest and backstabbing fits perfectly with the horror of totalitarianism and how one provides a relief valve for the other, but they actually don't sit side by side quite so comfortably.

Now, with corporate - elite totalitarianism being an internal threat to our nation, people must recognize and resist conforming to corrupted laws for the sake of conformity.

For our part, starting from the site of the airlift that sustained the city through the eleven - month blockade of 1948 and 1949, we drove a 26 - kilometer (16 - mile) loop over major streets, passing a remnant of the old Wall along the way and reflecting with admiration on our forebears» defiance of Soviet totalitarianism.

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A physical manifestation of the struggle between Soviet Communism and American capitalism — totalitarianism and freedom — that would stand for nearly thirty years, the Berlin Wall was the high - risk fault line between East and West on which rested the fate of all humanity.

His company built the technical platform for 2.2 billion morons to create and continously update with more data their own personal profile without fully understanding the consequences, to be datamined for profit and on the side it also serves as the foundation of the most perfect totalitarianism in history.

Based on three main political systems (democracy, authoritarianism, totalitarianism), Realpolitiks allows you to extend the influence of your country through various means, all in order to win the race for global domination.

For this reason many Modernists of the postwar generation felt that they were the most important bulwark against totalitarianism, the «canary in the coal mine», whose repression by a government or other group with supposed authority represented a warning that individual liberties were being threatened.

For more than three decades, his work has explored contentious political systems such as colonialism, totalitarianism, and apartheid through powerful allegorical imagery and theater.

Instead, at issue are the ambivalences inscribed in both, as for example with regard to totalitarianism and colonialism.

For a nation recently defeated in World War II and emerging from the shadow of totalitarianism, Gutai's call for vitality, play, and new artistic frontiers served as a jolt to a culture of consensFor a nation recently defeated in World War II and emerging from the shadow of totalitarianism, Gutai's call for vitality, play, and new artistic frontiers served as a jolt to a culture of consensfor vitality, play, and new artistic frontiers served as a jolt to a culture of consensus.

These events coincide with the first international Day of the Girl on Thursday, and they remind us that the global struggle for gender equality is the paramount moral struggle of this century, equivalent to the campaigns against slavery in the 19th century and against totalitarianism in the 20th century.

Doesn't matter whether it is religious totalitarianism, or Communist «some animals more equal than others» or the Fascist boot stamping on a human face for eternity.