Imposed Quotes

410 quotes by 348 authors

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of… — Thomas Jefferson
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
Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in the particular way… — Paul Brunton
A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are. — John Calvin
Thereâ€™s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss. — Ann Aguirre
The various forms of education or â€˜normalizationâ€™ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards a… — Gilles Deleuze
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics donâ€™t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection… — Stephen Colbert
The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is… — Jhonen Vasquez
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gradually, I began to resent Christian school and doubt everything I was told. It became clear that the suffering they were praying to be released… — Marilyn Manson
[Lighting a cigarette] Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm… — Frank Zappa
An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of… — Paulo Freire
I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around — Coco Chanel
Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man… — Anthony Burgess
Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere… — R A Salvatore
It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing… — Khaled Hosseini
True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward. — Jean Vanier
Nothing fails like successâ€”because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable… — Alan Watts
Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture. — James Patterson

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