Imposes Quotes
127 quotes by 111 authors
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
— Albert Camus
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No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing…
— Lionel Trilling
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Whoever is the first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight... Therefore the clever combatant imposes…
— Sun Tzu
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its…
— Adolf Hitler
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The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of…
— Carl Jung
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In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.
— Henri Poincare
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In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and…
— John Desmond Bernal
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The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that…
— Ronald Reagan
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Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.
— Celine Dion
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The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of…
— Herbert Spencer
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Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be…
— Dan Barker
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A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the…
— Friedrich Engels
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The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.
— Sun Tzu
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Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy that stays not…
— Shaw Neilson
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Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.
— Phil McGraw
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Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes
— Franklin P. Adams
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I was assigned male at birth, is the way I like to put it, because I think we're born who we are and the gender…
— Laverne Cox
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