more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over…

I've had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I've come to loathe them back, as it seems…

— Alain de Botton

“Dominion is a leadership position; it’s over things, and not necessarily over people. An attempt to usurp dominion over another person will only lead…

— Michelle Walker-Wade

In the doctrine of the world and humankind as 'will to power and nothing else', Heidegger identified not an antidote to nihilism, but the…

— David E. Cooper

Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their being. But…

— Rajneesh

“Public life is debased because it's only the nice people who are worried about imposing their views on others.”

— Alain de Botton

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