Sentences with phrase «think of any totalitarian state»

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Hitchens claimed that believing in God was equivalent to life in an eternal totalitarian state: «It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical authority who can convict you of thought crime while you are asleep, who can subject you to total surveillance around the clock every waking and sleeping minute of your life, before you're born and, even worse and where the real fun begins, after you're dead.

Based on the classic novel by George Orwell, the story follows Winston Smith, a resident of totalitarian state Oceania who finds himself victim to the Thought Police when he starts to question how things are run.

More New Releases: «Don't Think Twice,» jealousy and doubt amongst members of a New York City improve group after one of its members gets his big break — and the rest realize that they may not get theirs; «Kicks» one fifteen year old's quest through Oakland to retrieve a stolen pair of Air Jordans; «The Devil's Dolls,» a detective's search for his daughter in a city plagued by an ancient curse; and «The Perfect Weapon,» Steven Seagal as the powerful dictator of a totalitarian state and Johnny Messner as his main hitman / enforcer.

«Orthodoxy, conformity and the hounding of the dissident define the default position of mankind, and there is no reason to think that democracies are any different in this respect from Islamic theocracies or one - party totalitarian states.»