Imposed Quotes

410 quotes by 348 authors

The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is… — Edward Gibbon
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposedâ€”if all records told the same taleâ€”then the lie passed into history and became truth.… — George Orwell
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act… — Frank Herbert
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must… — Frederick Douglass
The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped â€” it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange… — Eugene H. Peterson
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and… — Edward Said
Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its… — Alberto Manguel
I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean. — George Eliot
It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I… — Anthony Burgess
A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency.… — John Kennedy Toole
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.… — Stephen Colbert
Education is a system of imposed ignorance. — Noam Chomsky
There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a… — Jodi Picoult
A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object… — Simone de Beauvoir
Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only… — Thomas Sowell
These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by our culture today… — Ravi Zacharias
In a way, the worldâˆ’view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the… — George Orwell
His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that… — William Golding
Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and… — Sivananda

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