Sentences with phrase «totalitarianism in»

The story is usually interpreted to mean that one should not believe everything one is told, as in the first version of the film in 1943 — one of a series produced by Walt Disney at the request of the U.S. government during World War II for the purpose of discrediting totalitarianism in general and Nazism in particular.

A truly totalitarian state really requires dictatorial rule to determine the state interest, while a dictatorship naturally gravitates towards totalitarianism in the interest of protecting the dictator (who is the state).

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.

They expose the «endpoints» of the United States capitalistic and militaristic crusades since 2001 — totalitarianism in the current era of war, globalization, and domestic crisis.

Based on their childhood experiences in the communist - ruled nation of Romania the developers have managed to create a dystopian world that draws from their own memories of a country that only abandoned communist totalitarianism in 1989.

His company built the technical platform for 2.2 billion morons to create and continously update with more data their own personal profile without fully understanding the consequences, to be datamined for profit and on the side it also serves as the foundation of the most perfect totalitarianism in history.

It's basically impossible to grasp that era of Soviet history — or totalitarianism in general — without the jokes.

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

At the same time it rebuked the pastors for opposing not Nazi totalitarianism in tow but only its encroachments on organized religion; they were making a truly heroic stand, but «the cause which they champion is not the fully Christian ideal» (February 7, 1934).

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.

Not exact matches

In Hungary, Heineken's red - star logo may have to go under a proposed bill that would ban branding with symbols of totalitarianism.

«We could enter into a phase of «surveillance authoritarianism,» where we don't face [George Orwell's]» 1984» model, where there's open totalitarianism, where we're dragged off in the middle of the night.

We're living in an age where we will choose between democracy and global totalitarianism.

His ban from visiting Britain in June 2009 has made him the «poster child» for free speech, not only for Americans concerned about the cultural shift towards totalitarianism and their rights to freedom of expression, but for people around the globe.

Brian C. Anderson attributes the new French attention to Aron's «lifelong resistance to the temptation toward totalitarianism and the literary politics that usually attended that temptation,» which is suddenly in style.

It was the Catholicism that successfully met the challenge of twentieth - century totalitarianism, and in its last stages, helped prepare the ground for the Second Vatican Council.

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 idea that the unitary character of totalitarianism is negated by the situation in Italy during Mussolini's rule in Italy is absurd.

Perhaps the best answer to the charge that she failed to credit Alfred Kazin for his editorial work on The Origins of Totalitarianism is in Kazin's own words.

On a somewhat related matter, Arendt's near - total absence of study of Italian fascism may simply signify a lack of interest in dealing with the exceptional and idiosyncratic features of that system's totalitarianism.

The history of Italian unification» Italian fascism having more than a decade's existence as a special place in radicalism; the role of the papacy in severely constraining manifest forms of statist rule; the cultural tradition of Italian major cities, which had autonomous forms of city development; and the weaknesses of Italy with respect to economic concentrations of power in the early twentieth century» all argue against a muscular totalitarianism.

The Declaration itself was occasioned by events in massive opposition to these truths - by totalitarianism, world war, and genocide.

Still another evidence of this early totalitarianism is presented in the absolute ownership of its members by the group.

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

In 2007, on the hundredth anniversary of Pius X's anti-Modernist encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Peter Steinfels used his column in the New York Times to suggest that the encyclical was a «revival of the battle against liberalism that the papacy and much of the church had been waging throughout the nineteenth century — and tragically the purge the encyclical started crippled those very elements in European Catholicism that might have resisted the Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World War I, when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.&raquIn 2007, on the hundredth anniversary of Pius X's anti-Modernist encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Peter Steinfels used his column in the New York Times to suggest that the encyclical was a «revival of the battle against liberalism that the papacy and much of the church had been waging throughout the nineteenth century — and tragically the purge the encyclical started crippled those very elements in European Catholicism that might have resisted the Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World War I, when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.&raquin the New York Times to suggest that the encyclical was a «revival of the battle against liberalism that the papacy and much of the church had been waging throughout the nineteenth century — and tragically the purge the encyclical started crippled those very elements in European Catholicism that might have resisted the Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World War I, when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.&raquin European Catholicism that might have resisted the Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World War I, when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.»

A remarkable exchange of letters ensued between the two men, exploring the continuities and disagreements in their views on totalitarianism.

Central and eastern Europe didn't break free of the shackles of totalitarianism without trying, failing, and then trying again: It took a critical mass of people, determined to «live in the truth» no matter how difficult, to implode the communist culture of the lie and give a new birth of freedom to the lands Stalin claimed as his prize for helping beat Hitler.

Of course, sometimes the totalitarianism state is based on religious power, like in Iran, but it certainly wouldn't tolerate any rival religion holding power, which is what makes the rise of evangelical power here in the US so scary.

As Hannah Arendt points out in The Origins of Totalitarianism, efficiency is so subordinated to control that the totalitarian society can afford to spend 50 to 75 per cent of its energies enforcing control of one sort or another on its citizens.

Totalitarianism is, almost by definition, religious in its intensity and in the nature of the demands it makes upon the total being of its adherents.

The book is about the painful and confused transitions from Communist totalitarianism» pains and confusions that in different ways attend educational reform also in this country.

The superman and totalitarianism offer this something more than oneself, and both are characterized by the fact that they do in fact remove all intrinsic value from the individual and make him simply a means to a greater goal in which he can symbiotically participate.

The one point at which totalitarianism made this evident was in cutting the freedom of religion.

Whether in the form of totalitarianism or of self - effacing loyalty to political parties, it represents the desire of this age to fly «from the demanding «ever anew»» of personal responsibility «into the protective «once for all»» of membership in a group.

Although not without its idealist elements, the analytic starting point of this form of internationalism was a realist assessment of the mid-twentieth-century situation: Totalitarianism was a mortal peril to free societies and resisting its aggressive encroachments required the United States to take the lead in defense of the West, since Europe had unmanned itself in the two mid-century world wars.

In this way, democracy, contradicting its own principles, effectively moves towards a form of totalitarianism.»

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».

Germany, Italy and, in its own way, Russia were totalitarianisms born in millennium - old Christian cultures.

Tillich already showed a full appreciation of the danger, as seen in the Soviet example, of turning socialism into a form of totalitarianism.

But he showed a full appreciation of the danger, as seen in the Soviet example, of turning socialism into a form of totalitarianism.

And he regards Wojtyla's long experience with totalitarianism as a training ground in the appreciation of republicanism, observing in this regard that «no Pontiff in modern times has ever come to the See of Peter with greater personal devotion to the principles of civil liberties as the natural and revealed rights of man than has John Paul II.»

Her most basic works are Origins of Totalitarianism (1951, updated in 1958), The Human Condition (1958), and On Revolution (1963).

We need better to understand what happened and why in the great, and finally successful, contest with totalitarianism.

In The Origins of Totalitarianism she analyzes what happens when, by a combination of ideology and terror, an elitist government sets out systematically to destroy a citizenry's capacity for action.

on ideology and totalitarianism, which, in fact, I have never taught....

Under the political regimes of the political totalitarianism and absolutism as well as colonialism and imperialism in the West, and ancient despotism and imperialism in the oriental civilizations, the people suffered severely and political sovereignty completely.

Witness to the collapse of an empire and the rise and fall of two brutal totalitarianisms, he was at the vortex of world - historical events; in part because of what he had observed, he could never credit the nostrums by which so much of modern opinion is sustained.

In fact, this culture can not be understood without seeing the way the Bible has functioned as Scripture with divine authority, whether in the development of the Middle Ages, the Protestant Revolution, or certain elements of the resistance to totalitarianisIn fact, this culture can not be understood without seeing the way the Bible has functioned as Scripture with divine authority, whether in the development of the Middle Ages, the Protestant Revolution, or certain elements of the resistance to totalitarianisin the development of the Middle Ages, the Protestant Revolution, or certain elements of the resistance to totalitarianism.

Hegel's position shows clearly how the idea of the state can act almost as a prophetic principle over against the extremes of totalitarianism or materialism, and how such a state might lie within the «divine strategy,» though only if, as we said earlier, we may be permitted to read his philosophy of history in a more flexible way than he may have intended it himself.