Imposed Quotes

410 quotes by 355 authors

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from… — James Madison
People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win....This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands....But people who tamely allow slavery… — Kenneth Roberts
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works… — D. H. Lawrence
THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of power… — James Madison
I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to the… — James Madison
See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the… — Garrett Hedlund
For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day,… — Gordon Cooper
There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school. — Alfie Allen
I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, and then they became Blockbuster Music,… — Jorge Garcia
I had an economic system imposed on me. — Lauryn Hill
Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning. — Aldous Huxley
As president, Nixon imposed wage and price controls, created the Environmental Protection Agency, initiated race-based hiring schemes, signed SALT I with the Soviets and instituted… — Ann Coulter
Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery,… — David Berlinski
Anything that you have imposed on yourself to be unhappy, to be bound, is a concept. It is an imaginary concept, so give it away. — H. W. L. Poonja
Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can… — Edward Abbey
America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed… — Edna Ferber
All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from… — Carl Jung
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the… — Charles Babbage
Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out… — Indira Gandhi
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it… — Johannes Kepler

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