Impose Quotes

405 Impose quotes by 345 unique authors

We impose the form of the old on the content of the new. — Marshall McLuhan
Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The… — Mikhail Gorbachev
It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked. — Gore Verbinski
When we are no longer motivated by fear, we understand that every moment is perfect in its own way. We no longer dread what we… — Alberto Villoldo
For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me. — Joseph Scheidler
Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the… — David Brooks
Parents impose their own limited concepts on their children, often ignoring their temperaments, special needs, and abilities. Your parents and teachers may have mistakenly ignored… — Ari Kiev
If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know… — Learned Hand
If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter.… — Eric Hoffer
Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And… — Matsuo Basho
The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence. — Helen and Scott Nearing
In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have. — Chris Ware
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
If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force… — Sun Yat-sen
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance. — Max Weber
Creativity does not derive from order but from the attempt to impose order where it does not exist, to make new connections. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
We learn to be right and to make everyone else wrong. The need to be right is the result of trying to protects the image… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
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

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