Sentences with phrase «totalitarian project»

They demonstrated that human beings are not what the totalitarian project said they were: merely machines to be manipulated, for whom faith was an opiate and scientific materialism would be liberation.

Isaiah Berlin thus deserves considerable credit for identifying the perversion of liberty that was at the root of the totalitarian project, and for defending a concept of liberty - as - noninterference that, in setting legal limits to coercive state power, has deep resonances in the American political tradition.

Not exact matches

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.

I adore Ray Bradley's dystopian classic, a 1984-esque totalitarian future with literature - destroying firemen, and with Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon filling out the frame and Rain Bahrani (the underrated and under - seen 99 Homes) behind the camera this could be a page - to - screen project of great intrigue.