Sentences with phrase «power of totalitarian states»

Even more difficult, on a world scale what forces can be built up to counterbalance the power of totalitarian states?

Not exact matches

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.

The president of the U.S. does not have a tenth of the power of a dictator — of somebody in a totalitarian state — so you realize that people's ignorance of history is really grand.

For in so doing, it would act as a totalitarian state which recognizes no limits to the power of the state or to the citizen's obligations toward the state.

In Russia and in other totalitarian states, both left and right, the most fearless advocates of human rights are usually nurtured in minority religious communities which on the surface have no power at all.

Isaiah Berlin thus deserves considerable credit for identifying the perversion of liberty that was at the root of the totalitarian project, and for defending a concept of liberty - as - noninterference that, in setting legal limits to coercive state power, has deep resonances in the American political tradition.

This is the power you have been granted as the new landlord for Krushvice 6; an apartment block in a city of an oppressive totalitarian state where you can be deemed a criminal just by the colour of the tie you are wearing.

As the powers of the state have been used in an attempt to attack Mann, accusing him of «totalitarian tendencies» is especially ironic — and more than a little paranoid, frankly.

The tools used by the Islamic Republic of Iran to retain power, like other totalitarian states — the silencing of political dissidents, torture, and the twisting of religious notions to ensure compliance — becomes the backdrop of a familiar story.