Imposed Quotes

410 quotes by 348 authors

Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new… — Yann Martel
....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether… — Daniel Goleman
Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title… — Robert Green Ingersoll
In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the natives. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions… — Mahatma Gandhi
In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that the poet is… — Herbert Read
We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first… — Barbara Ehrenreich
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
Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up. — Philip Yancey
Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on Fannie… — Wilbur Ross
Of all the hurdles you will need to face in this life time the hardest will be your self imposed limitations — Jan Hellriegel
The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any… — Henry David Thoreau
Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and… — Anthony de Jasay
One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of… — Sigmund Freud
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within… — Murray Bookchin
In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of… — Carl Jung
Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation. — Edith Wharton
Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed… — Confucius
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is… — John Fowles
I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government. — Esther Dyson

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