Imposed Upon Quotes
72 quotes by 64 authors
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The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of…
— John Berger
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Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on…
— Benjamin Carson
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for…
— Thomas Paine
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It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted…
— Woodrow Wilson
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The world is not religious because religion is imposed upon us. The parents are in a hurry to impose; the church, the state, the country…
— Rajneesh
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Be light-hearted, light-footed. Be of light step. Don't carry religion like a burden. And don't expect religion to be a teaching; it is not. It…
— Rajneesh
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Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period…
— Charles Evans Hughes
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The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from…
— Edward Sapir
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Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and…
— Galileo Galilei
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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
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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
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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
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Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be…
— Renzo Piano
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The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history…
— Thomas Berry
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Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. By…
— Yusuf al-Qaradawi
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The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this…
— John Trudell
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When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and…
— David A. Bednar
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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
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