Sentences with phrase «to keep people in line»

Someone is always keeping people in line, even if it is simply the law, the state or the police, all legal entities that we have to keep society functioning.

That is, if you can't keep people in line, the security of the establishment is constantly compromised.

How much were these pastors paid by Obama to at least keep their people in line when election day comes?

yes elect me, i will attack Iran and start many more wars, because it will make me and my friends more money and wars keep people in line!

My life is great following basic morals and laws without having to pay homage to the invisible god and the silly rules that his creators have invented over the years to keep people in line while getting rich.

Most of the scary comes from the character Dargent Peytraud, a fanatic who keeps people in line through fear of torture and fear of making them a zombie.

Fury Road takes place in an arid, apocalyptic wasteland, where the big bad Immortan Joe keeps people in line using his vile brand of tyranny, until Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) helps Joe's five wives escape.

One of Big Brother's strategies for keeping people in line is to modify the existing language into Newspeak, where key words are «not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be.»

Believing in a system that was created by stone age men sitting around a fire telling fairy tales to scare kids and keep people in line, that was propagated by men who learned to write, and that was based on making a class of «preists» and holy men that could get money for doing nothing and that could dictate how olthers should live and molest boys and girls is stupid.

The Bible was written to keep people in line... no stealing, no this, no that just so there would be some order and MONEY.

We do this not because of some book written 2000 years ago to keep people in line and to explain a world that lacked much scientific ability.

That image of an angry, violent, judgmental God has kept people in line and has given religion an enormous amount of control over people, hasn't it?

In areas with another religion in dominance, that other religion (and its holy writings) is used to keep people in line and «in their place» and sometimes includes the persecution of those with minority views including Christians.

In dominant Christian areas, Christianity (and the bible) is used to keep people in line (or in their place) and sometimes includes the persecution of those with differing minority views.

More likely we hear a whole lot of «keeping people in line» preaching with a little bit of Jesus will save you and make you fit for heaven at the very end.

ALL religions are nothing but ancient mythology, written thousands of years ago by primitive people in order to try and explain existence, comfort people in the face of their mortality and keep people in line.

As it turns out, this was quite convenient, as it allowed ruthless control freaks to easily subjugate the masses, and it kept people in line (for the most part).

Religion was created to keep people in line.

maybe you do nt like metaphysical belief schemes to keep ppl in line, but they are the ONLY proven method.

It was written by a bunch of uneducated (by today's standards) men who tried to explain things and to keep people in line.

A lovely tool used by the church to keep people in line.

It's not the first time since the beginning of the summer that the threat of the sack has been deployed to keep people in line.

Now, a study suggests that an omniscient, moral god isn't necessary to keep people in line — all you need is the threat of supernatural punishment.