Word: governed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ortega barely mentions the word democracy in his book; he is less concerned with what form government takes than with its need to have an acceptable illusion to govern by. Missing from Philosopher Ortega's thesis is evidence that the medieval peasants and Roman multitudes shared his enthusiastic acceptance of the conditions under which they lived. But Ortega-who is paradoxically a hater of the law and of institutions, which he accepts only because he considers them "realities"-insists that oppression can be carried to great lengths before it becomes as destructive and perilous to the life and spirit...
...Engineer Jackson wanted to get technical, he could have rattled off any number of the bewildering rules that govern his brotherhood and the rail operators. Most of the rules were 40 years old, or older; many were outworn; many no longer made sense. It was a rare railroader who knew them all, or understood 75% of them...
...Communist line is equally placatory. Thorez insists that the present stage of French development calls for a democratic regime and that the only ambition of the Communist Party is to be the most democratic of French parties. It follows, he says, that the French Communist Party will govern only if it gets the support of a majority of the French people. On nationalization of industry, the last Assembly went almost as far as the Communists want to go, except that they would like to see all-rather than some-heavy industry taken over by the state. The Communists will...
Somewhat inconsistently, Vishinsky offered another definition. "After all, what is democracy if not the power of the people? . . .As Lenin said, every worker of our nation should be able to direct the state, and every cook should be able to govern. Democracy in the Soviet Union is in fact the participation of tens of millions of peoples in the government." Vishinsky does not always discuss democracy in such exalted terms. Recently in Bucharest he was asked privately how he thought Rumania would go in a completely free election between the Communist-dominated Government parties and the opposition. He pondered...
...conservative outlined the future: "If the vote is 'Yes,' the June 2 elections will bring a Communist-Socialist regime, with the Communists controlling the Ministries of War and Interior [police]. For perhaps a year the Communists will govern reasonably. When they feel they have the situation in hand, they'll start putting on the heat-limiting more and more individual rights, etc. Eventually the Socialists will crack. Half will go with the Communists, half will move to the Right. The Communists then will no longer have a majority in the Assembly. And this is where, dropping...