Sentence examples for totalitarian thought from inspiring English sources

Henceforth, he would devote himself to a lifelong assault on totalitarian thought in general, and Marxism in particular.

The threat he posed to totalitarian thought came from his ability to attach these common-sense principles to a set of magisterial arguments and timeless aphorisms.

Like many of Kadare's books, it is set in an imprecise past shaded by myth, but lit by the glare of totalitarian thought control.

His fierce critique of Plato, Hegel and Marx was understood as an assault on totalitarian thought, and became widely fashionable, even when denounced by dissenting scholars and rivals.

"In fact, totalitarian thought is embedded in each of our mind to some extent"(Gaddis 1997: 72).

Newspeak may have been a plausible invention in 1948, when totalitarian thought control still seemed an imminent possibility.

It burned so hot that he turned it without a second thought at a secular, totalitarian Iraqi dictator.

In the name of totalitarian ideologies, millions were slaughtered because people thought certain thoughts and as a consequence performed certain actions.

The porousness of the Internet has undermined both the thought-control machinery of totalitarian regimes and the propagandistic clout of corporations that used to have a far easier time suppressing unwanted news that might derail their stock price or their next Edsel.

Few last week were as forthright as the New Yorker's George Packer in identifying the murders at Charlie Hebdo for what they were — the latest episode in totalitarian Islamism's "war against freedom of thought and speech, against tolerance, pluralism, and the right to offend — against everything decent in a democratic society".

If it was an absolute idea, it would become totalitarian.