Sentences with phrase «from totalitarian»

Crowd consensus is only a very short step away from totalitarian thought control, and the passions of the mob.

So is the lack of democratic - pluralist instincts and critical thinking that would make us Germans, of all peoples, shy away from the totalitarian tendencies that have been building up in an age when green pseudo-environmentalism has become the ruling ideology in Germany, indeed the new church that unites almost all Germans.

We have been saving the world from totalitarian monsters for a long time.

I don't think they understand that we will take our chances for now with a highly unpredictable outcome of the future climate compared with the utterly predictable destruction and catastrophe that will result from this totalitarian course of demagoguery, fear - mongering and lying which arises from the human character's weakness for the love of power.

Meantime Paris remained the undisputed centre of abstract art, not least because it attracted refugees from the totalitarian states Russia and Germany, where abstraction was banned as bourgeois or degenerate, respectively.

He Xiangyu's The Swim (2017), meanwhile, traces the Chinese artist's return to his home town near the border with North Korea through a series of interviews with veterans of the Korean War and defectors from the totalitarian regime.

In this story - driven stealth game, you'll help a woman escape from a totalitarian government.

Not all, however, accept such a ruling, with many, including J.D. and his friends Delmont and Kait, choosing to ostracise themselves from the totalitarian regime of the COG and take their lives into their own hands.

We have only seen a few mech games for the PlayStation VR; Archangel had you in the cockpit of a giant mech travelling through cities and county sides in a quest to save the world from a totalitarian government and Rigs offered us a future sport where mechs battled each other while having to score points in some pseudo football and basketball games.

Still, «The Last Jedi» honors the franchise's chief values of idealism, loyalty and self - sacrifice that made the original «Star Wars» so beloved, with a similarly appealing ragtag team of hotheads and cockeyed optimists to root for as they try to save their galaxy from totalitarian domination.

But the most notable nominees are The Handmaid's Tale, a show about a woman's escape from a totalitarian society that practices ritualized rape, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, starring Frances McDormand as a mother seeking vengeance and justice for the rape and murder of her daughter.

When one ant becomes disenfranchised from the totalitarian work regime of his colony, he adventures off to lands unknown.

«We therefore caution this government to come to terms with the fact that this nation can not afford to contain, at this time, undue and avoidable pressure coming ceaselessly from its totalitarian tendencies and actions.»

The idea of a purposeful universe can be redeemed from the totalitarian rigidity that Berdyaev fears if it is allied to the notion of adventure.

An effort to divert all Egyptians» attention away from the totalitarian corrupt regimes.

Think of all the blood it took to liberate us from the totalitarian regimes of a One Church hirachy which existed in Europe for the last 1700 years..

He also wrote that his fellow libertarians were on a «fool's errand» trying to achieve their ends through political means: «In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms — from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so - called «social democracy.»»

Not exact matches

The real dilemmas have to do not with the fact that there are brutal dictatorships in the world, but with the fact that the governments of the world are spread along a spectrum, from fair and democratic to violent and totalitarian.

For now, let me observe that it is precisely Arendt's formulations of the totalitarian strains in the revolutionary periods of German and Russian state power that separate her work from shabby comparative linkages.

Every atrocity of religious / totalitarian government, from fascism in Europe to the theocracies in the Middle East to the personality cults in Soviet Russia and North Korea, is now identified and broadcast with unprecedented clarity.

Like Polanyi, Fr Holloway sees that «the paradox of all these totalitarian philosophies is that they emanate from the minds of individuals, and their intrinsic certainty does not therefore transcend the individual and limited minds from which they proceed.»

We know from historical experience that, when these communities are weakened or destroyed, individuals become abstract instruments of collective power and the way is opened to tyranny and totalitarian control.

The eyes of those who have recently come out from under totalitarian rule are set on another model.

Solzhenitsyn attempts to rewrite the Russian people's history from the point of view of those banished from it — the political prisoners and victims of the totalitarian state.

NO this is not the teachings of God the Almighty of the Old and New Testament this is evil and perverted and all Christians must take notice and action to keep their children safe from being converted to this false religion that is nothing more then a totalitarian system of government.

But is it appropriate to accuse fundamentalists of a totalitarian impulse simply because they envision a mode of life, emanating from religious principles, that embraces law, polity, society, economy and culture?

Because a phrase like «totalitarian evangelicalism» has a frightening ring to it, I will distinguish it from those «goods» and «partial goods» — which have some justification in the facts of life and human nature — by explaining what I do not mean by it.

Irreligious and idolatrous cultures may take many forms, from the pure self - seeking of irresponsible individualism, through the various types of more or less organized pursuit of advantage, to the collectivistic autonomy of a totalitarian «people's democracy.»

From the Christian perspective the way out of our present social confusion lies neither in relying on military force nor sacrificing principle for appeasement, neither in fighting a «cold war» nor in yielding to totalitarian autocracy.

Yet may we not claim, observing the precipitate growth of democracies and totalitarian regimes during the past hundred and fifty years, that it is the Sense of Species, which for a time seemed to have vanished from human hearts, dispelled in some sort by the growth of Reflection, that is now gradually resuming its place and reasserting its rights over narrow individualism?

U.S. government leaders and an «objective» press described the Sandinistas in Nicaragua as «communist,» «Marxist,» «Marxist / Leninist,» «totalitarian,» «Cuban - backed,» or «Soviet - backed» so often that few U.S. citizens knew that Sweden was giving more aid to Nicaragua per capita than to any other country or that while Nicaragua does have both a Communist party and a Marxist - Leninist party these two parties together received less than 3 percent of the vote and are distinct from and hostile to the Sandinista party.

... no one is forcing you... you have 30000 domination to choose «not totalitarian» from... your kids are acting in your house by neighborhood rules?

This prevented medieval society from becoming totalitarian along the Chinese model, and (as A.D. Lindsay put it in The Modern Democratic State) «preserved liberty -LSB-...] by maintaining in society an organization which could stand up against the state.»

So, why is it that he refrained from calling the Castro regime and other such failed experiments in materialist totalitarian communism «the dung of the devil»?

From what I could determine from the letters, a goodly number of those who took up their pens to defend the electronic church against my criticisms are ready and waiting for some kind of totalitarian solutFrom what I could determine from the letters, a goodly number of those who took up their pens to defend the electronic church against my criticisms are ready and waiting for some kind of totalitarian solutfrom the letters, a goodly number of those who took up their pens to defend the electronic church against my criticisms are ready and waiting for some kind of totalitarian solution.

John Paul II well understood, both from his rootedness in biblically based teaching and from his experience of living under both the Nazi and the Communist totalitarian regimes, why both of these evil regimes were so threatened by the very presence of the Jewish people and the Catholic Church in the world.

«Since there is no Supreme Arche as source of meaning and value, there is no need to set the world right... Unless we free ourselves from the bias that forces us to conceive the Cosmos as a single - ordered world which it is our responsibility to recreate in social and political dimensions, we shall surely not escape the temptation to exploit the instrumental power born of our narrow and perverse anthropocentrism for totalitarian ends (EI 251).

It is totalitarian because, although one has some mobility within the pattern, one has lost the basic freedom of departing from the pattern itself.

That idea of Fawkes largely stems from his use in V for Vendetta, a 2006 movie based on the comic books by Alan Moore about a mysterious masked revolutionary who brings down a totalitarian regime, succeeding where Fawkes failed by blowing up parliament.

He writes that even though «it would be furthest from Whitehead's mind to consider that such a metaphysical theodicy could readily serve as a rationale for the repressiveness of totalitarian regimes.»

From missionaries in foreign lands, from Christians scorned by their own kinsmen in non-Christian areas, from loyal churchmen persecuted by totalitarian governments come declarations of Christ's blessing and Christ's lFrom missionaries in foreign lands, from Christians scorned by their own kinsmen in non-Christian areas, from loyal churchmen persecuted by totalitarian governments come declarations of Christ's blessing and Christ's lfrom Christians scorned by their own kinsmen in non-Christian areas, from loyal churchmen persecuted by totalitarian governments come declarations of Christ's blessing and Christ's lfrom loyal churchmen persecuted by totalitarian governments come declarations of Christ's blessing and Christ's love.

First, Christian hope prevents secular hopes from becoming false absolutes and, in turn, totalitarian: one need only consider some of the tragic secular utopias of the 20th century to understand this point.

... The Greco - Roman family was also totalitarian from certain perspectives.

Although in more modern times religious persecution has passed from the hands of religious to totalitarian political powers, the deeply irrational contempt for other religions is still widespread.

Anglo - Saxon democracy is fundamentally different from the democracy of the French Revolution which Was totalitarian in tendency.

So it is no accident that the only open challenge to the totalitarian state has come from men of deep religious faith.

It seems that modern political thinkers uniformly consider it a bad idea, from left to right, from most libertarian to most totalitarian / statist.

From the viewpoint of a totalitarian regime, there is a benefit of a sham election: You can mark the ballots with invisible ink and use this to identify people who vote «incorrectly».

Crucially, the excitement around Corbyn is spontaneous, it emerges from the bottom up, and that gives it a different character to totalitarian cults.

It is the clearest riposte yet from Ben Bradshaw to James Murdoch, the son of the media mogul who gave a speech recently associating the BBC with totalitarian government.