Imposes Quotes

127 Imposes quotes by 110 unique authors

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one — Igor Stravinsky
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging… — Azar Nafisi
Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored. — John Maynard Smith
Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be… — Hugo Ball
The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand
This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies… — Herbert Marcuse
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. — Pliny the Elder
Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves. — John Dryden
No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern… — Sigmund Freud
A tough manager will have realistic quotas for his employees that he keeps to himself and aggressively stretch quotas, anywhere from ten percent higher to… — Twyla Tharp
Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience. — Anthony Eden
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them.… — Richard Schickel
I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings. — Theodore Bikel
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art… — Stephen Neill
Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature. — Immanuel Kant
For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality. — Gaspard Ulliel
Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share… — Louis Simpson
The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his… — Charles de Gaulle
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. — Vincent Van Gogh
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. — Peter Drucker
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes… — John Dryden
Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive… — Dag Hammarskjold

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