Sentences with phrase «from totalitarianism»

LI was founded in 1947 to strengthen liberal protection from totalitarianism, facism and communism.

As mentioned in the first paragraph, 28 Days Later is similar to Boyle and Garland's earlier work, The Beach, in that it explores the dangers humans face, not only from total anarchy, but from totalitarianism as well.

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.

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.

Rather, they betray the totalitarianism of a false Utopia, warned of by John Paul II, which arises when justice is detached from freedom.

Communism was not a path of atheism based on reason and rationality but rather from an ideology that took its teachings from religious totalitarianism.

The book is about the painful and confused transitions from Communist totalitarianism» pains and confusions that in different ways attend educational reform also in this country.

The superman and totalitarianism offer this something more than oneself, and both are characterized by the fact that they do in fact remove all intrinsic value from the individual and make him simply a means to a greater goal in which he can symbiotically participate.

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.

John Paul says, «I would probably maintain that Eastern Europe could lose more, with regard to its identity, because Eastern Europe, through all its experiences imposed by totalitarianism has matured...» Gawronski can not keep himself from interjecting, «Thanks to communism, then!»

And in exploring the wide implications of it all, he noted «the risk of an alliance between democracy and ethical relativism, which would remove any sure moral reference point from political and social life, and on a deeper level make the acknowledgement of truth impossible» (VS 101) and warned us, as he had done in an earlier encyclical, that «As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism».

What Goodwin, Heilbroner, Galbraith et al. are telling us is that unless we change our moral guidelines so that «material possibilities» are «totally devoted to the enrichment of human life,» the pendulum of history will swing from freedom to totalitarianism.

Reason, or more properly «secular reason», needs faith, because it is faith that will save the values and convictions of civilised western society from being trodden under foot by ahistorical pragmatism, relativism and totalitarianism.

In some circles, this consensus also held that communist totalitarianism suffered from the same dark disease.

Van Dusen explained that no individualistic Christianity, not even individualistic proclamation of the message of the Kingdom, could possibly save the world from false totalitarianism.

But the Russian experience reminds us that totalitarianism can come on stage from the left wing as well.

In the closing pages of The Rebel, Camus asserts that nihilism and totalitarianism, those twin offspring of absolute freedom and absolute justice, flow from a deep disorder in Europe:

From Antiquity to the Renaissance, to the Holocaust and Soviet totalitarianism, how does the memory of these «mnemonic signifiers» impact on the decisions taken today, and how have historical experiences shared between European countries shaped their politics?

Here are the titles I wrote down: Introduction to Embryology; Chabod, Machiavelli and the Renaissance; James T. Farrell, The Face of Time; Hannah Arendt, Imperialism (a paperback selection from The Origins of Totalitarianism); Black Rage; Ashley Montague, The Direction of Human Development; Linus Pauling, No More War; Vertebrates; Calculus; Struik, The Origins of American Science; American Political Dictionary....

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.

An early masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize hailed as the laureate of life under totalitarianism.

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose by Joe Biden Grant by Ron Chernow Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West by Tom Clavin We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta - Nehisi Coates The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit by Chris Matthews The American Spirit: Who We Are & What We Stand For by David McCullough Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem by Bill Nye Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom by Condoleezza Rice Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977 — 2002 by David Sedaris Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated (B&N Exclusive Edition) by Shea Serrano Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union

Based on their childhood experiences in the communist - ruled nation of Romania the developers have managed to create a dystopian world that draws from their own memories of a country that only abandoned communist totalitarianism in 1989.

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 consensus.

Dr. Soon (with help from Christopher Monckton of Brenchley): Fascism, National Socialism, International Socialism and Communism are all disfiguring and mutually indistinguishable instances of the totalitarianism that the political philosophers of early imperial China excoriated as «legalism» and the French philosophers as étatisme, intégrisme and dirigisme.

Thus people like Flannery and Finklestein will be paid to justify totalitarianism from Science and the Law.

But I would agree that the basic problem in all representative democracies today is «creeping totalitarianism» from increased centralization of power, and that it requires a concerted effort from the citizens to stop this (or at least slow it down).