Sentences with phrase «power over the masses»

As mankind progresses and leaves the Dark Ages farther and farther behind, knowledge and science inexorably debunks myth after religious myth to the point where religion is exposed as nothing more than a sick joke, nothing but a method to gain control and power over the masses.
But the ones HE detested most of all were the politicians and money lovers who seeked to gain power over the masses to enrich themselves while stepping over dead bodies and claiming the dead poor had just encountered a streak of «bad luck».

Not exact matches

This is a dumb argument because it's always over political power when mass murders happen by political figures.
The war is not over, Islam wants nuclear power and unless we can educate their masses soon, who knows...
Furthermore what you've already quoted above over and over again is that Lenin and later Stalin were two such communists who enforced atheism to consolidate power, the specific targeting of religious folks was so they can bring the proletariat to them rather than let the masses have a separate authority figure.
And, oh, this misery, that so many live on and are defrauded of this most blessed of all thoughts; this misery, that people employ themselves about everything else, or, as for the masses of men, that people employ them about everything else, utilize them to generate the power for the theater of life, but never remind them of their blessedness; that they heap them in a mass and defraud them, instead of splitting them apart so that they might gain the highest thing, the only thing worth living for, and enough to live in for an eternity — it seems to me that I could weep for an eternity over the fact that such misery exists!
As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by:
75 % of the people no longer believe in the Establishment of the Church as they are a means for the top 1 % Aristocratic Oligarchy to maintain their power over the 99 % working masses.
Control over the communication field and the flow of mass information, helps secure the legitimacy of the owning class's politico - economic power.
During the last quarter of a century the large mass media corporations themselves have been taken over by even larger corporate powers.
When reading about all of the items the church believes is a SIN I came to the conclusion that most religions use guilt to manipulate the masses and thus exert their power and influence over someone.
By power, I mean, not only the institutional power — the control over money, employment and other resources — but also the ritual power which has a tremendous potential for controlling masses.
Scaring people into believing something has great power over individuals freewill therefore being able to control mass groups of people.
We have still to find the reason not only for the triumph of Christianity over its many rivals for the allegiance of the Roman Empire and of the Hellenistic world, but also for the birth and growth of the Church, for monasticism and its continuing vigor, for the existence and quality of the New Testament, and for the power that could bring about the mass conversions.
As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.
The domination of a rich and powerful elite over the masses, religious and caste groups organizing to usurp political power, a virtual collapse of the secular framework of the Constitution, continuing misery of the poor and their exclusion from all decision - making process, new ethnic identities and their struggle for justice — these are some of them.
The sands soaring over the desert, the face of Imhotep visible in the mass of deadly sandstorm is a perfect symbolism for the pure power that the heroes of this film are taking on.
It's probably most like a 911, in that you have to manage the front end to be able to get the power on and use the mass over the rear.
Over rough paving, the cornering technique is altogether different as the combination of power, mass and stiff suspension demands a very delicate touch.
The ease and convenience of flipping on the power and swishing an index finger across a glass - like surface has more than won over the masses.
Denounce Intel's blatant corruption attempt, 4 days after the announcement of the $ 35 ARM Powered Android Tablet project, Intel India is quick to suggest the Government should rather (basically give up on the ARM Powered Tablet) and just use the «Donation of 1500 Intel powered tablets» for pilot project (to last a couple years or so preferably, enough time to delay all other real mass low cost deployment attempts), same thing Intel did all over the world to block OLPC from reaching developing couPowered Android Tablet project, Intel India is quick to suggest the Government should rather (basically give up on the ARM Powered Tablet) and just use the «Donation of 1500 Intel powered tablets» for pilot project (to last a couple years or so preferably, enough time to delay all other real mass low cost deployment attempts), same thing Intel did all over the world to block OLPC from reaching developing couPowered Tablet) and just use the «Donation of 1500 Intel powered tablets» for pilot project (to last a couple years or so preferably, enough time to delay all other real mass low cost deployment attempts), same thing Intel did all over the world to block OLPC from reaching developing coupowered tablets» for pilot project (to last a couple years or so preferably, enough time to delay all other real mass low cost deployment attempts), same thing Intel did all over the world to block OLPC from reaching developing countries.
The Wii then wasn't merely the latest version of a flashy supercar, but rather a hybrid vehicle that emphasised mass appeal and processing efficiency over raw power.
And finally the Royal College of Art graduate Zhu Tian brings the viewer sheep skins, and with them reflects power strategies asserting the individuals identity over corporate and misogynistic manipulations — but the artist's sheep skins are not the warming variety, instead they are the skins of the subservient and unthinking masses.
And in fact, I do think it would be a good idea for the billions of people all over the world who have never had access to electricity to have access to cheap, efficient, mass - produced off - grid solar powerpower they can generate for themselves, without being beholden to big utilities.
We use some of the power to spread the cold water over the surface so that it does not sink below the layer where phytoplankton convert dissolved CO2 into organic matter that increases the mass of their bodies to feed other ocean creatures.
The point here is that the seasonal p - p power flux in and out of the Earth's thermal mass is well over 100 W / m ^ 2, plus and minus.
In addition to the version of the Clean Power Plan modeled in the AEO 2016 Reference case, which examines mass - based compliance over new and existing sources with limited regional trading and allowance revenues rebated to ratepayers, EIA also modeled a number of sensitivities.
And then, a few years after a critical mass of legal problem - solvers start using AI - powered legal tech and it blows everyone's minds for a while, ROSS or Casetext or some other AI - powered startup will take over Clio's booth on the TECHSHOW floor.
War, hostilities or warlike operations (whether war be declared or not), Invasion, Act of an enemy foreign to the nationality of the Insured Person or the country in, or over, which the act occurs, Civil war, Riot, Rebellion, Insurrection, Revolution, Overthrow of the legally constituted government, Civil commotion assuming the proportions of, or amounting to, an uprising, Military or usurped power, Explosions of war weapons, Utilization of Nuclear, Chemical or Biological weapons of mass destruction howsoever these may be distributed or combined, Murder or Assault subsequently proved beyond reasonable doubt to have been the act of agents of a state foreign to the nationality of the Insured Person whether war be declared with that state or not.
Chrome and Firefox are focused on simplified, customizable browsers for mass appeal, for example, while Vivaldi wants to win over power users.
But long before Peterson decided to stay outside when the shooting started, many others in power have chosen to stay out of the fight over what to do about mass shootings.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z