Imposed Quotes
410 quotes by 348 authors
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In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us…
— Federica Montseny
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Slavery is a condition imposed upon individuals or races not sufficiently able to protect or defend themselves, and so long as a race or people…
— Marcus Garvey
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Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.
— Benvenuto Cellini
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I make one image—though 'make' is not the right word; I let, perhaps, an image be 'made' emotionally in me and then apply to it…
— Dylan Thomas
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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
— Yves Saint Laurent
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Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization…
— Isaac Mayer Wise
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For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed…
— Adrian Bejan
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The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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There are conservative values where certain lifestyles are imposed and everybody should have 2.4 children and a dog and a cat and a house and…
— Steve Coogan
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More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
— Pope Francis
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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
— Milton Friedman
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Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed…
— Frederick Douglass
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I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
— Ernest Holmes
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I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought…
— David Icke
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I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties…
— Daniel Inouye
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The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had…
— Alan Keyes
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I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it,…
— Mark Knopfler
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Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed.
— Rush Limbaugh
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