Sentences with phrase «n't tyrannies»

As you know, they aren't tyrannies imposed ON journalism from the outside, e.g., by atomic structure or by a cosmic universal spiritual force.

If the situation described by the Guatemalan bishops (who indeed are not fully aware of all the evils rife in the country) is not a tyranny, then I say that St. Peter has spoken in vain and that the situation he describes does not exist anywhere.»

This is not tyranny.

Lewis even claims that «dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery» (Abolition, p. 46).

That is is not tyranny.

Not exact matches

Zukunft: Well, the first is you think beyond the tyranny of the present, and you need to think at least five to six years out, and you can't just think of what's going to happen during your four - year tenure and then just truncate it and just say it's going to be somebody else's problem four, five years from now.

Using the word «tyranny» once and «absurd» nine times, Judge Orenstein accused the DOJ of trying to use the authority of the All Writs Act to get through the courts what it couldn't get from Congress.

Jonas won't rule any of these dystopias out, but he believes the third is most likely --» democracy allying itself with a kind of pseudo-scientific health - worshipping eco-maniacal post-family feminism, culminating in a whopping tyranny to make autocracy, or even oriental despotism, look like a Boy Scout jamboree.»

They were also influenced by escaping from countries where the freedoms we enjoy today did not exist, and they were very careful to learn from the tyranny of the masses they had escaped from in creating a nation that would not end up the same way.

That most Americans have not felt it as tyranny stems from the fact that most of us agree with the goals of racial equality.

That is not freedom of religion, that is tyranny.

The tyranny comes from dictatorship and not atheism.

But Prof. Himmelfarb does well to remind us just how long that Victorian run was, even if the collapse was not into tyranny or anarchy.

Indeed, the «battle» that resulted in the killing of hundreds of thousands of priests and nuns was not forgotten, except by Western apologists for Soviet tyranny.

IF CNN is censoring that out, WOW, I just can't believe what I am seeing... absolute Jewish tyranny.

And, not incidentally, it represents precisely the way of thinking that marked the orthodoxies of the tyrannies now, thank God, overthrown.

Free markets are preferable to tyranny not because they enrich us but because they help to make us moral.

«When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, «This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,» the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.

I see people mastered by habits — drink, drugs, temper, lust — in a tyranny they can not disobey.

«Is not this,» asks Father Melville, «a case of obvious and prolonged tyranny?

It might have been possible to affirm moral righteousness along with Hellenistic absoluteness; after all, it is not beyond our imagining that a kind of moral tyranny, with a calculus of rewards and punishments, could be ascribed to an entirely absolute being.

Would it not be more intelligent to seek to liberate ourselves from the tyranny of profits?

The voters in CA will not matter if this is determined to be a matter of civil rights, in which case the «tyranny of the majority» will be overturned.

The fruits of human lust, pride, and fear, when man supplants God are terrible and inevitable, but a recoil from the new barbarism of the mind already apparent behind the Iron Curtain will not suffice to build a new and positive culture in opposition to the Tyranny of the new errors.

The Declaration recognizes the importance of justice and does not rule out resistance to tyranny, even in the last resort by violence.

As Peter Berger comments, «We must begin in the situation in which we find ourselves, but we must not submit to it as to an irresistible tyranny.»

That Graham aligns himself with this anti-gay position marks him as a supporter not only of bigotry, but oppression and tyranny as well.

In this experience of sin lies the root of the principle of limited government, and of the balancing of systems and powers, so that the instruments of potential tyranny do not fall into a single set of hands.

The tyranny of the PRO-LIFE argument is so retarded because it demands that NO ONE should be able to have an abortion, even if the fetus is (1) the result of a vicious r - ape, (2) the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother, among other examples that prove that abortion is not always an «act of convenience.»

The first line of defense against tyranny is free elections and a free press, not Saturday night specials.

The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to his worst passions; and, thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, can not but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.3

Consequently, the world that was meant to be a great human family «with liberty and justice for all» is the scene not only of injustice, tyranny, and heartache, but of bitter strife that may engulf us all.

By way of sharpest contrast, the Board encountered a «haughty» and uncooperative manner in some bishops, leading them to the conclusion that «the exercise of authority without accountability is not servant - leadership; it is tyranny.»

Like it or not, intolerance of intolerance, hatred of hatred, and resistance to oppression and tyranny is not bigotry.

-- who give heed to the meaning of the great racist persecutions and who try to understand this meaning, they will see Israel as drawn along the road to Calvary, by reason of that very vocation which I have indicated, and because the slave merchants will not pardon Israel for the demands it and its Christ have implanted in the heart of the world's temporal life, demands that will ever cry «no» to the tyranny of force.

A good example is Habakkuk's presentation of a dialogue between the prophet and God — the prophet's first complaint is against the sins of Judean society and God explains that he will be using the evils of the invading Chaldeans to punish Judea; the prophet responds by complaining about the evils of the Chaldeans which God then assures will not go unpunished — that they tyranny itself will lead to it's own punishments and that the punishment for Judea's sins is itself redemptive and God assures that he will be able to provide salvation.

Have not Americans in this century struggled against the «tyranny» of the Germans, the Japanese, the Communists, and Saddam Hussein?

If the right to command is not coupled with recognition of liberty, then it is not authority that is being exercised but some form of tyranny.

One is not a slave, subject to the tyranny of the drive for success, but a willing servant of the good.

Wilson and others entranced with the new system argued that it would be immune to the corruptions of the classical republics and that it would not suffer a collapse into tyranny.

In his 1940 essay, «Why the Christian Church is not Pacifist,» Reinhold Niebuhr wrote: «Nothing is more futile and pathetic than the effort of some [Christians] who find it necessary to become involved in the relativities of politics, in resistance to tyranny or in social conflict, to justify themselves by seeking to prove that Christ was also involved in these relativities, that he used whips to drive the money - changers out of the Temple...»

Locke himself was all about, in the words of Ronald Bailey, not «submitting to the tyranny of Nature's lottery — which cruelly deals out futures blighted with ill health, stunted mental abilities, and early death.»

In an interview with the Church of Ireland Gazette, he also blamed negative attitudes towards the EU on recent European human rights judgments which he supported, saying: «The fact is, of course, we have absorbed the European Convention on Human Rights into British law anyway, so it is not as if there is some sinister global tyranny forcing us, he said.

Please do not forget that the reason that Christianity is the majority religion in the United States is because it was founded by Christians fleeing the tyranny and persecution of the Church.

We may not agree with what is expressed, but we should protect free speech no matter what the cost — anything less is bowing to tyranny.

He was concerned that tyranny not arise again.

Otherwise it is the tyranny of the religious right who do not respect OUR Constltution that creates these problems.

The ending of tyranny in the world is an eschatological hope, not a political policy, and one wishes the president's language would reflect that fact of life.

Otherwise it is the tyranny of the religious right who do not respect OUR Consti «tution that creates these problems.»

If Aristotle insisted not only on the objectivity of truth but on the ability of the intellect of man to apprehend it, the French philosophe Jacques Rousseau denied this objectivity by ushering in what Cardinal Ratzinger called the «tyranny of relativism,» which gives the rationalization of homosexuality so much of its philosophical underpinning by arguing that natural law is merely a human construct and, as such, susceptible of subjective definition.