Imposed Upon Quotes

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A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty… — J. B. Priestley
The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law. — Caspar David Friedrich
Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise… — Anthony Storr
In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us… — Federica Montseny
Slavery is a condition imposed upon individuals or races not sufficiently able to protect or defend themselves, and so long as a race or people… — Marcus Garvey
I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties… — Daniel Inouye
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it,… — Mark Knopfler
There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon… — Lysander Spooner
The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. — Dalton Trumbo
To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else. — David A. Bednar
Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? — Anthony Burgess
The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the… — Herbert Marcuse
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must… — Frederick Douglass
Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its… — Alberto Manguel
I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean. — George Eliot
It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I… — Anthony Burgess
A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency.… — John Kennedy Toole
These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by our culture today… — Ravi Zacharias
In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are. — John Calvin
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

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