Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form…

Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign…

— Thomas Sankara

What we have is a more sophisticated form of imperialism, which is economic. But lurking in the background, always ready to go, is an…

— Howard Zinn

“But an oft-heard complaint, as companies spread their tentacles around the world and compete on a global playing field, is that globalization is merely…

— Tom Standage

I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think…

— Corazon Aquino

You see in Turkey, they had a remarkable success story in building up a democracy. I was in Istanbul for most of the year…

— Bernard Lewis

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it…

— Muhammad Yunus

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Where there is love, there is no imposition.

— Albert Einstein

These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

— Samuel Richardson

The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

I think that both pornography and the imposition (common in some areas of the world) of a dress code on women are problematic.

— Alison Assiter

The sanctions may be imposed only by the decision of the UN Security Council. A unilateral imposition of sanctions is a violation of international…

— Vladimir Putin

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

— Amartya Sen

The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the…

— Kate Millett