Sentences with phrase «totalitarian orders»

Martyrdom, in the twentieth century, became inevitable in the context of totalitarian orders which quench the spirit, sow death and scorch the earth.

The doctrine is rejected as though the state should and could become the single and totalitarian order of human life.

To have the self succumb to the totalitarian order of objects brings the sculptor to the brink of psychosis, and Genzken's new work seems to inhabit that position.

Her best advocate, Benjamin HD Buchloh, says of Genzken: «To have to self - succumb to the totalitarian order of objects brings the sculptor to the brink of psychosis.»

Not exact matches

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.

She does not mean to be a totalitarian religious society whose life and decisions are all ruled by the orders of a central authority.

A political decision, namely, against a state which as a totalitarian state can not recognize any task, proclamation and order other than its own, nor acknowledge any other God than itself, and which therefore in proportion to its development had of necessity to undertake the oppression of the Christian church and the suppression of all human right and freedom.

Current enthusiasm for civil society is usually traced to the arguments of Vaclav Havel, the Czech president, and others who posited the claims of civil society against the totalitarian claims of communism, and, earlier than that, to the To Empower People manifesto authored by Peter Berger and myself in order to lift up the crucial role of non-governmental «mediating institutions» in public policy.

A simple ordered society will settle for outward conformity; a totalitarian one demands complete inward allegiance.

That we are not yet living within the crudely totalitarian and oppressive atmosphere of Orwell's world, but are aware of some subtle signs that we may be moving in its direction, makes it vital that we reflect on the meaning of Barmen, in order to learn to speak and act while there is still time.

I shall analyze how low - intensity conflict is a comprehensive, totalitarian - like project through which the United States seeks to manage social change in the third world in order to protect perceived vital interests.

«Since there is no Supreme Arche as source of meaning and value, there is no need to set the world right... Unless we free ourselves from the bias that forces us to conceive the Cosmos as a single - ordered world which it is our responsibility to recreate in social and political dimensions, we shall surely not escape the temptation to exploit the instrumental power born of our narrow and perverse anthropocentrism for totalitarian ends (EI 251).

The attempt to know everything about everybody on a global level is a totalitarian power, whether or not you think that power is being exercised in order to reduce or to limit democracy.

The star player of a gladiatorial future sport is ordered to retire by the corporate executives who see his popularity as a threat to their totalitarian grip on society, but when he resists they begin to change the rules of the game to ensure his failure.

The totalitarian willingness to follow the orders of Mrs. Pankhurst is disturbing, lending some credence to the enforcer of the existing order, a police inspector (Brendan Gleeson) who insists that Maud is nothing to her leaders but cannon fodder.

Because, on the one hand, Dredd is a representative of the totalitarian system, and is in charge of keeping order and freedom, but on the other hand he functions as a protector.

In order to make this nightmare became a reality, it took a unique combination of a complex of many different factors: the complete subordination of the State National Socialist totalitarian regime, active promotion or acquiescence by the majority of the population of Germany, collaboration, and, finally, deeply rooted anti-Semitism in Europe.

Following directly on from Episode 2: A House Divided (which Alternative Magazine Online described as «the perfect mix of action, plot advancement and character development»), Episode 3 sees Clementine and her new group captured and put to work by Carver, a totalitarian psychopath who uses fear and violence to instil has own uniquely twisted brands of justice and new world order.

When governments have been confronted by breakdowns, they have frequently resorted to totalitarian measures to keep order in the face of chaos.

Close down the UN before we end up under a totalitarian new world order.

But is it really a good idea for the U.S. to ally with a totalitarian dictatorship — a systematic violator of the environment and of human rights — in order to bring the rest of the world to heel?

Because at the heart of any totalitarian system is the caprice of the ruling order, and you can't get any bigger caprice than 400 + district court judges acting as their own sentecing commissions.

surprising «that Quebec's Ministry of Education had assumed what he called a totalitarian character essentially equivalent to Galileo's being ordered by the Inquisition to deny the Copernican universe.»

Totalitarian systems such as these depend on moral order and outer order.