Imposed Quotes

410 quotes by 355 authors

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him. — Sun Tzu
The price of peace is righteousness. Men and nations may loudly proclaim, 'Peace, peace,' but there shall be no peace until individuals nurture in their… — Ezra Taft Benson
The only authentic responsibility is towards your own potential. Values have not to be imposed on you. They should grow with your awareness, in you. — Rajneesh
What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took a proud and… — Richard M. Nixon
Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international… — Abba Eban
Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. — Henry David Thoreau
Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and… — Galileo Galilei
He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade. — Saint Augustine
It can be argued that rapists deserve to be raped, that mutilators deserve to be mutilated. Most societies, however, refrain from responding in this way… — Stephen Bright
I am afraid that it would be a mockery of justice if the death penalty is not imposed. And therefore I pleaded that there are… — Ujjwal Nikam
Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some… — William J. Brennan
Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been impaired, judicial administration… — Ramsey Clark
You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment. — Michael Foot
The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of… — Eric Pianka
In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside… — Clifford Allbutt
This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each… — Herodotus
As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where particular state constitutions… — Immanuel Wallerstein
[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you… — Henepola Gunaratana
In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they… — Joseph Story
The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to… — Alexander Hamilton

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