What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Public life is debased because it's only the nice people who are worried about imposing their views on others.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I think that both pornography and the imposition (common in some areas of the world) of a dress code on women are… — Alison Assiter Copy Share Image
Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Gay sexuality inevitably involves brutal physical abusiveness and the unnatural imposition of alien substances into internal organs, orally and anally, that inevitably… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To… — Claudio Hummes Copy Share Image
One might plausibly contend that Congress violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers when… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
One citizen, or a few, may be powerless if all the rest are determined to benefit from the imposition of unjust supranational… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Thanks in large measure to the ACLU, the belief that there is a wall of separation between faith and state, not just… — F. LaGard Smith Copy Share Image
We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal would inject… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
This trial cannot be separated from the process of the historical struggle in Palestine that continues today between the Zionist Movement and… — Ahmad Sa'adat Copy Share Image
One of the things when you write, well the way I write, is that you are writing your scenario and there are… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism. — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity. — Fausto Cercignani Copy Share Image
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years. — Bill Condon Copy Share Image
The imposition of anomalous models and lifestyles are alien to people's identity and, in the end, are irresponsible. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image