Sentences with phrase «totalitarian government»

This line of reasoning has been used by totalitarian governments of both the right and the left to justify their existence and their most abhorrent actions.

But perhaps we could all try to do so in a way which does not diminish the experience of those millions of people systematically murdered by totalitarian governments in the middle of the 20th century.

The horrifying political, economic, and social consequences wrought by totalitarian government in the former communist world have been so thoroughly exposed over the past several years that there are very few today who will openly defend the Soviet economic model.

However it is typical for totalitarian governments because they have tendency to have their laws ajusted toward protection of status - quo.

It is the clearest riposte yet from Ben Bradshaw to James Murdoch, the son of the media mogul who gave a speech recently associating the BBC with totalitarian government.

It magnifies the power of corrupt and / or totalitarian governments over workers.

While I respect Rush's right to speak his mind (without people like him, we would be like other totalitarian governments that don't tolerate dissent), I am with the Pope and the church in their efforts to reach out to the world.

From missionaries in foreign lands, from Christians scorned by their own kinsmen in non-Christian areas, from loyal churchmen persecuted by totalitarian governments come declarations of Christ's blessing and Christ's love.

Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta takes place in an alternate vision of Britain in which a corrupt and abusive totalitarian government has risen to complete power.

The wildly popular Hunger Games YA book and film franchise takes its name from an event involving an arena constructed by a dystopian totalitarian government for the sole purpose of sending randomly selected children to...

I loved the art style too, the sterility really worked with the oppressive totalitarian government angle.

I hope this Olympics becomes the poster boy for nasty air and nasty totalitarian government.

ghg - AGW and the Clathrate Gun are scare stories paid for by corrupt politicians to establish totalitarian government.

But what was going through my mind, watching the Wall come down and totalitarian governments all over eastern Europe collapse with it, was: This is happening too fast.

As for diminishing the «experience of those millions of people systematically murdered by totalitarian governments» - well, clearly the irony of that statement in the light of your continued support for Labour is - lost on you.

As Marshall jokes, «It takes a while for totalitarian governments to figure out who these uppity women are.

It is well known that the totalitarian government of North Korea is financing at least some of these hacks.

They want a theocracy and a totalitarian government where all must obey.

Every atrocity of religious / totalitarian government, from fascism in Europe to the theocracies in the Middle East to the personality cults in Soviet Russia and North Korea, is now identified and broadcast with unprecedented clarity.

I had read about the church's central role in helping end a totalitarian government in Benin and in promoting a new humanitarian approach to government.

Cinephiles of a certain age will remember Woody Allen's Sleeper, in which a totalitarian government of the future is about to clone its dead Great Leader.

Peace based on a desire for mere survival can be idolatrous, can be unjust in our acceptance of some lesser evil — the enslavement of Eastern Europe, a totalitarian government, a monolithic defense establishment — in the name of security and order.

It has contributed powerfully in our time to the spread of the idea of human dignity, the growth of democracy and constitutionalism, and the demise of authoritarian and totalitarian governments.

The decline of the church as a major world force is one factor which allowed the rise of Hitler and totalitarian governments.

When this happens a totalitarian government often takes over.

We still have not learned the lesson of Vietnam; democratic governments are not necessarily more moral than oligarchies or totalitarian governments; they are capable of cruel self - deception.

Whether the totalitarian governments collapse or change their ways and whether the change comes soon or late, the epidemic of purges and the spreading disaffection of once enthusiastic followers reinforce the old lesson that power in itself is no cure for man's ills, and that human institutions are not equal to the task of assuring human salvation.

seems weak... especially when there are all kinds of totalitarian governments that want people to worship the supreme leader yet allow religions to flourish It's really JUST those marxist - lenninist regimes that have atheism as a central tenant that target religion..

The more» religion» infects the political process in this nation, the more this nation heads down a highway to totalitarian government, if Perry is so convinced about his faith, he should start a church and stay the he11 out of politics.

The strategy of withdrawal (# 1 above) maintains in a dramatic form the prophetic witness against social evils; under a totalitarian government it may be the only way in which the church can exist at all.

Those young folks are nurturing loyalties to a network of other teenagers around the world, and I wonder whether any totalitarian government can tame that network.

In Italy Fascism, while preserving some of the outward forms of the pre-1914 monarchy, brought in a totalitarian government.

Based, like Watchmen, on the comics of Alan Moore, the movie portrays a future Britain, ruled by a totalitarian government.

«This is a totalitarian government that rules by terrorizing its people, and any American official going over there should address that issue,» Cox said.

How could a totalitarian government keep its people down while forcing some of their children to fight to the death in a yearly competition?

Coached by District 13's President Alma Coin (Julianne Moore) and former gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee (the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in his final role), Katniss has played the part extraordinarily well, delivering empowering speeches and exposing the unconscionable measures taken by the totalitarian government that gave them adolescent death competitions as reality television.

The story takes place in the republic of Panem, where the United States has broken into 12 districts and, as a penalty for a failed uprising against the totalitarian government decades earlier, each district must offer one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in The Hunger Games, where the «tributes» must participate in a nationally televised battle to the death.

There are no actual Hunger Games this time, just the battle between the totalitarian government (led by preening President Donald Sutherland) and the rebel forces.

For another, Katniss now knows for a certainty that the Games are a sham, and the totalitarian government, located in the metropolis known as The Capitol, will stop at nothing to maintain its iron-fest rule over the people of the neighboring 12 districts.

A monster movie that isn't really a monster movie, The Host revels in its hazy political metaphors of totalitarian government.