Sentences with phrase «less free society»

Do you think they had to be a lot more secretive and «under the radar» about it to avoid fierce judgment at the time from a much less free society than today's?

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In the end, the existence of programs such as PRISM and Stellar Wind is disheartening for Diebert, since democratic societies are supposed to be better than the less - free countries they often condemn.
That is why capitalism — and societies free not only in their economic system but also in their polity and their culture — have arisen with less friction in areas where Jewish and Christian traditions are strong.
The freer a society, with better education, and the easier access to information and different views is, the less religious it will become.
The crucial thing here was not that the State, particularly in its more or less totalitarian forms, weakened and gradually displaced the free associations, but that the political principle with all its centralistic features percolated into the associations themselves modifying their structure and their whole inner life, and thus politicized society to an ever - increasing extent.
The question is being asked whether the price for the present pattern is not too high, whether we could not, without losing me many good things in our society, have a freer impulse life, a richer imaginative consciousness, be less alienated from our bodies, be capable of more profound intimacy with a few and more community with many others.
Fraga surrounded himself with a younger team and focused his speeches on the risks of socialism, such as the creation of dependent societies, which, through their support of welfare and subsidies, weakened values such as work, responsibility and merit; in turn, societies would become less competitive and free.
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«Sooner or later this «free» higher education will feel less and less free as increasing taxes will likely drive the most educated, highest earning, most able Germans away from Germany and into societies where they can take home a greater percentage of their pay.»
Always rich in colour and technique, de Balincourt's work is a bountiful confluence of reality and fantasy, where references to society, politics, or popular culture are never less than equalled by free association and painterly invention.
I am not yet in my 40's but was raised in a very alternative community of people in nyc in the 70's and 80's... amidst the depression of the city at that time, there were tons of free - thinking individuals, groups and companies leading the way presenting biofuel - concepts and ideas, or promoting industries based on recycling things rather than being a disposable society... there have always been large numbers of people in the pro-environment movement country and world - wide that cried out about how alternative thinking would lead to newer, more positive and less harmfully - impacting industries and tried to introduce inventions that could have spurred new economies... Had the auto industry not blocked things, we could have had more energy efficient cars decades ago... but they did not want the «expense» of helping foster this new industry... it is so damn sad it took a war to make people «wake up» about alternative fuels and how exciting the options are.
Some still try to claim that the perceptions / evaluations of wealth today will naturally continue to grow into the future if more people are freer to believe what they want and do as they please (the fantasy that good results will be produced by a less regulated free - for - all society / marketplace).
We would be free to limit other people's freedoms in that case, because we would be to reduce the quality of life of people who are much poorer than ourselves, who have much less agency than ourselves... Fox: [Interrupting] No, I'll tell you what you need for cleaner technologies, you need to actually argue for greater investment in R&D, actually have a vision that is not about limits, and natures revenege and worrying about cutting down CO2 emissions, a vibrant, healthy, future - oriented society that says the way forward is to develop lots of new technologies, to industrialise everything.
, legislative facts and law (the WHO website shows that drinking water is not safe in that country, so little Jethro won't be moving overseas with dad any time soon), or less crucially about everyday society, like contextual facts and definitions — such as how free speech is jealously protected, how children can't really be blamed for being born out of wedlock, or how married women are natural bartenders.
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