Sentences with word «totalitarianism»

On observing the rise of totalitarianism in Russia, Germany and Italy, Maududi believed Islam to be the answer to humankind's woes.

Who does see it as a problem is Russian government, who promote acceptance of totalitarianism in Russia's satellite countries.

These events coincide with the first international Day of the Girl on Thursday, and they remind us that the global struggle for gender equality is the paramount moral struggle of this century, equivalent to the campaigns against slavery in the 19th century and against totalitarianism in the 20th century.

Sweden also massively implicated — which figures, as they flirted with totalitarianism for decades.

It is not entirely fair to Fukuyama's argument, but it was widely assumed that, after the end of Communist totalitarianism, «the end of history» meant that the alternatives to liberal democracy had been exhausted.

This year, his booth at Art Basel in Basel placed Rama alongside the Gutai artist Kazuo Shiraga, as both artists» work addressed life under totalitarianism by seeking to liberate the body and its functions.

One must not forget that the scriptures tell tales of satanic crowds rising above our folds» Christian constabularies and in their controlled leveraging, they set the word's stage up for unifications of villainous servitudes all waging for totalitarianism values at the behest of an anti-Christian «demonocracies» we know to be as democracies.

The actions of communist dictators were driven by totalitarianism... a lust for power that they felt would be threatened by religious cults.

His final volume, The New Leviathan, was a searching analysis of the trend toward totalitarianism which he saw operating in the U.S. and other governments.

If history is any indication, the proposed regulations reveal a pattern of «creeping totalitarianism» in the country, he said.

And this made it all the more striking (and perhaps indicative of the divine sense of irony) that the collapse of totalitarianism as a plausible political model came in 1989, two hundred years after the Jacobin fire had first melted men's minds and consciences in the name of a false idea of freedom....

The Great Lie is the new book of essays on totalitarianism edited by my friend Flagg Taylor.

On the one hand, a significant part of the experience of political totalitarianism in this century has been the total disregard for human privacy.

To sustain the excitements of being part of a global feminist revolution against religious totalitarianism, you have no choice but to be Catholic.

I «d locate New Labour «s history in 20th century totalitarianism, but more the right than the left really.

Totalitarianism didn't just drop out of the blue.

As mentioned in the first paragraph, 28 Days Later is similar to Boyle and Garland's earlier work, The Beach, in that it explores the dangers humans face, not only from total anarchy, but from totalitarianism as well.

The descriptions for fascism here are apt however Nazism is a bit misunderstood as just being anti-Semitic totalitarianism which is only partially true.

The real excitement of the movie is seeing just how far they'll take their political parallels — which is pretty much all the way to a grand conspiracy theory linking current US foreign policy with Nazi totalitarianism.

Lionel Trilling's reflections on «the liberal imagination» told us much about how we live and think about how we live, while Arendt on the origins of totalitarianism made sense of a Cold War that held the world in thrall for almost half a century.

What paved the way, in her view, for Stalinist totalitarianism was the fact that Lenin and his followers soon abandoned the second part of the equation for the sake of the first.

When George Orwell published a novel about totalitarianism in 1948, he arrived at its title by simply reversing the last two digits of that year, so that the date became 1984.

Obviously the only remedy [to the emergence of the new totalitarianism] was a new affirmation and manifestation of universality as an essential characteristic of the Church.»

«Corporate totalitarianism means total control by corporate interests....

I could write an essay showing how the Bible encourages economic and political freedom, and opposes totalitarianism, but I would quote very different Scriptures, but do so in their proper context.

Corporate Totalitarianism, or Not, Opinion by Marianne Williamson

Then why fight totalitarianism at all?

Sounds like totalitarianism to me.

To lonely, isolated people totalitarianism comes, enfolds them with the iron bands of terror, clears their agonies of mind with one idea and its easy train of syllogisms, one thesis with all other ideas the antithesis, and by this brief, false Camelot wins them in order to crush them.

The obverse of this 60 - year love affair with leftist totalitarianism by Labor's fellow travellers was mounting contempt for the US and all it stands for, which they regarded as a capitalistic Sodom and Gomorrah.

There are good reasons to mount challenges to the increasingly aggressive intolerance and soft totalitarianism of postmodern progressivism.

The Pope calmly continues, «It has matured rather in the process of self - defense and the struggle against Marxist totalitarianism.

And in exploring the wide implications of it all, he noted «the risk of an alliance between democracy and ethical relativism, which would remove any sure moral reference point from political and social life, and on a deeper level make the acknowledgement of truth impossible» (VS 101) and warned us, as he had done in an earlier encyclical, that «As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism».

I find it interesting that most of the readers here don't know that Pachauri got his job with the backing of President Bush, because Bush couldn't stand the other guy (talk about attempted totalitarianism failing dismally).

Set in the very near future, the pure fear at the heart of the book comes from Porter's construction of a slide into totalitarianism made possible by the legislation we have today and the mores of a governing class that thinks it knows best.

Radicals dare not allow their important condemnation of the past and present injustices committed by Western powers to dull their sensitivity to the ghastly history of Marxist - Leninist totalitarianism.

Were any other person with a narrower outlook or sympathies raised up as the living source of aims to which we humans would be subordinate, we could find ourselves subject to a demonic totalitarianism destructive of the best possibilities inherent in us as separate individuals.

Between the 1920s and the 1970s many people living in democracies believed that only the Soviet Union and the Communist Party could fight right wing totalitarianism and fascism.

For our part, starting from the site of the airlift that sustained the city through the eleven - month blockade of 1948 and 1949, we drove a 26 - kilometer (16 - mile) loop over major streets, passing a remnant of the old Wall along the way and reflecting with admiration on our forebears» defiance of Soviet totalitarianism.

Your confusion is caused because there is another axis of political affiliation that you are missing, authoritarian / populist / totalitarianism vs. libertarian / individualism / anarchism.

Maybe they should return to elite - run totalitarianism regimes, which have suited them so well in the past.

The human, under surveillance and under American Southern totalitarianism, is the recurrent theme in the new, compelling Netflix feature «Mudbound.»

Given the chance, I can not imagine a mind more inclined toward evil, despotic, self - aggrandizing totalitarianism than is yours.

I hope [the West] makes the case for democracy in Tibet and concomitantly for freezing the mediaeval nut cases from power... Otherwise, we simply replace a distinctly modern totalitarianism with a Himalayan version of the ayatollahs.

We know to what degree totalitarianism represents false answers to our own unsolved problems — political, economic, spiritual.