Impose Quotes

405 quotes by 345 authors

The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each… — Carl Sagan
The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the… — Thomas Jefferson
What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or… — Claud Cockburn
The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when… — Edmund Burke
People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man. — Milos Forman
Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed. — Karl E. Weick
For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different… — David Cronenberg
The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state… — Jim Bunning
I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape… — Sandra Brown
I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research. — Juan Cole
I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the… — James Frey
France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change… — Laurent Fabius
I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We… — Trey Gowdy
I don't believe there is such a thing as a moderate Islamist party. The challenge with Islamists is that they seek to impose what they… — Frank Gaffney
I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down.… — Robert M. Gates
However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not… — Claudio Hummes
Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both… — Bobby Ray Inman
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines of reason and… — Thomas Jefferson
One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men. — Phyllis Schlafly
The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it. — Joanne Harris

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