Sentences with phrase «sustain authority and power»
What lies beneath cultural facades is often a reality that counters and undermines the deception and invention designed to assert and sustain authority and power.
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«Our struggle is not against actual corrupt individuals, but against those in power in general, against their authority, against the global order and the ideological mystification which sustains it.»
A slave mentality There will always be a struggle between priestly authority and prophetic challenge in institutionalized religion because institutions are intrinsically conservative and will always choose social stability over justice which works to the advantage of the socioeconomic / political power - elites whose interests are served by sustaining the status quo.