Enforced Quotes

141 Enforced quotes by 121 unique authors

The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules… — Iris Murdoch
The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny… — Edgar Friedenberg
I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that at all. — Keri Russell
Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more… — George Gilder
There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the… — Plato
But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself… — David Cronenberg
I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that… — Elizabeth Dole
I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity. — Bob Dylan
I believe the best test of our integrity and honesty is when we personally enforce in our own lives that which ultimately cannot be enforced. — David A. Bednar
Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But… — William Shakespeare
A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the… — John Cheever
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced. — Elbert Hubbard
God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the greatest occasion of… — Roger Williams
Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to… — Chris Matthews
No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old,… — H. L. Mencken
May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this… — James Madison
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies. — Mahatma Gandhi
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. — Ernest Dimnet
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized… — Frederick Douglass
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. — Albert Einstein
Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate. — James Hansen
After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is… — Stephen Harper
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that… — Peter Kropotkin
Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home front. My father… — Bill O'Reilly

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