Sentences with phrase «not authoritarianism»

Without a religious culture, the slide into statism, if not authoritarianism, seems to become irresistible.

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«We could enter into a phase of «surveillance authoritarianism,» where we don't face [George Orwell's]» 1984» model, where there's open totalitarianism, where we're dragged off in the middle of the night.

You can not accept this kind of authoritarianism, and neither can I. Nevertheless, «authority» can have an admirable meaning, and we could not live without it for a single day.

Cynicism and moral anarchism, whether expressed in crimes against persons and property by the dispossessed or in self - interested manipulation by the better - off, are, if I read modern history right, more likely a prelude to authoritarianism if not fascism.

At a moment like this when there doesn't seem to be a lot going right — ascendant authoritarianisms throughout the world; lethal violence by ideological fanatics; feckless responses to both from the democracies — it's good to be reminded that things can be different, and in fact were different, not so very long ago.

But the beguiling lures of authoritarianism» or even of neo-traditionalism and neo-orthodoxy» must be resisted; we can not, without indulging in acts of bad faith, pretend to certainties we do not possess.

It is not about institutionalism or authoritarianism.

Festivals, musical forms, and other features of folk culture are not denounced as antiquated features of authoritarianism that seek to destroy autonomy, which seems to be what the Frankfurt School thought about folk culture.

He is still saddled with the traditional image of preaching with its clearly discernible authoritarianism being communicated nonverbally not only in voice and manner but also in the form and movement of his sermon.

Rather, it is for him a profoundly spiritual question, because he finds behind authoritarianism an image of God which refers to a severe ruler who does not support humans in their own being but hinders them.

He wanted the Church's bishops to follow the lead of Vatican II and see themselves first and foremost as teachers and sanctifiers; but he not infrequently appointed bishops with a tendency to liberal authoritarianism to key positions in their respective countries, with grave effects on episcopal leadership throughout the world.

Such a new order would involve, as in the case of traditional authoritarianism, an abrupt shift away from the exclusive dominance of technical reason, but it would not involve the adoption of the reified objective reason either.

He found that «Literally - oriented religious Believers did not differ significantly from Mythologically - oriented Believers on measures of intelligence, authoritarianism, or racial prejudice.

GFI has provoked unprecedented public censure from Christian leaders because, although it is not a cult, it has consistently exhibited a pattern of cultic behavior, including Scripture twisting, authoritarianism, exclusivism, isolationism, and physical and emotional endangerment.

Indiscriminate and extrajudicial punishment of citizens you disagree with does not lead anywhere good, it is a main tenet of oppression and authoritarianism.

To join and stay in the EU, member states must be democracies — that means unelected European Commissioners, and even other heads of other member states, do not pronounce on member state democratic politics (unless a country is veering towards authoritarianism — in which case the EU treaty has clear procedures for this — see Article 7 of the Lisbon Treaty http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:C:2008:115:SOM:en:HTML).

Would a political ideology that involved the fascist - style authoritarianism and collectivism but did not rely on the traditionalist concept of nationalism and religion (e.g., was secular) and invented its own definition of collective independently of traditional ethnicity, still be considered fascism?

Perhaps in hindsight, it was not a good move for the European Union, as there are signs with the rise of authoritarianism in Hungary that European Union expansion may have occurred too quickly, and the criteria should have been applied more closely.

Not to be outdone, David Remnick in the New Yorker weighed in with «The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism.

In the coming weeks and years, we must not turn a blind eye to the sliding mechanisms of authoritarianism, or allow ourselves to overlook abuses of basic human rights.

Al: obviously the Labour blogosphere is not the main cause or driver of growing authoritarianism, and my post does not say it is.

The crushing electoral defeat of the Ethiopian opposition does not actually help the ruling party and encourages its slide into authoritarianism

«I'm not denying that there is a chunk of people who turned to the Liberal Democrats at the height of Blair's authoritarianism and his fascination with Bush and Cheney and said «Ha, these Liberal Democrats, they're the leftwing party I want.

I couldn't agree more with your editorial in reference to «New York: Welcome to the state of authoritarianism.»

Trump «doesn't seem to have an impulse against projecting an image of authoritarianism, which is new,» added Michael Macleod - Ball, chief of staff for the ACLU's Washington legislative office.

Acceptance of this relativistic worldview undermines democracy and leads not to tolerance but to authoritarianism.

The film doesn't assume a polemical position regarding the death penalty — either for or against — though in the context of Singaporean authoritarianism it probably would have been banned, with writer - director Boo Junfeng imprisoned, had it taken an explicitly abolitionist stance.

The script, cowritten by Iannucci with David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows, doesn't so much joke about dictatorship as find the very existence of authoritarianism to be one of humanity's sickest, saddest, oldest jokes — a fine distinction, but an important one, because it prevents the film from feeling exploitative, instead lending it the feeling of a lament in which the storyteller laughs so that he won't cry.

Her core finding, per Haidt, is that «authoritarianism is not a stable personality trait.

Regular school exclusion (suspensions and expulsions) create a perception of authoritarianism for all students, not just those excluded.

This is not a choice between liberalism and conservatism, but an unavoidable choice between authoritarianism and democracy.

Authoritarianism has a lot to do with the denial side of things, but I don't think that is the only thing.

China is betting that its brand of authoritarianism will go viral and infect not only Eastern nations it hopes to bring under its hegemonic sway, but the Western world as well.

Since the AGW motive is a reflection of complete corruption, collectivist Utopian - ism, statist authoritarianism there simply isn't a half - loaf compromise to justify Dr. Curry's overall view.

The real fear, and it tends to be highly correlated (studies keep showing, anyway) with strong «conservatism» and even more, with authoritarianism (at least libertarians, once they get a great grasp of the facts, if not zealots, can start to change their perspective on CC) is both fear of change, and fear of a wildly myopically presumed macroeconomic harm.

Hence one doesn't need to scratch the surface of Monbiot's theses (or any other green manifesto, for that matter), to discover its dark authoritarianism.

«Cheap digital cameras, broadband, and citizens who do not believe that cops are owed unquestioning deference will help limit [increasing authoritarianism].»