Imposed Quotes

410 quotes by 354 authors

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that… — Georges Bernanos
In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced,Â it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if youÂ got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit.Â China… — Andrew Weil
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness. — Phyllis Schlafly
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. — Arthur Koestler
To the shepherds alone was given all power to teach, to judge, to direct; on the faithful was imposed the duty of following their teaching,… — Pope Leo XIII
All limitations are self-imposed. — Ernest Holmes
The budget targets imposed by the Bretton Woods institutions, combined with the effects of the devaluation, trigger the collapse of public investment. — Michel Chossudovsky
International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case, the domination of… — Robert Kagan
We cannot build the new culture for learning to which we aspire in an environment which is depressed and dampened every day by the impact… — Robert Carothers
What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as laws are natural,… — Mikhail Bakunin
When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to involuntary… — Star Parker
Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with… — Rick Warren
The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon… — Lin Yutang
People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, itâ€™s a gay film. . . .Â I think thatâ€™s really… — Todd Haynes
The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Limits are self-imposed. But there are no limits to human energy nor the goals you can achieve. — Mike Shanahan
State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure. Their inflexibility goes… — Roger Scruton
War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. Â There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity. Â The… — Jacque Fresco
Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty God Himself: to… — Ibn Hazm
History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist… — Scott Ritter

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