Imposing Quotes

158 quotes by 148 authors

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are… — Paulo Freire
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ… — Stanislaw Lem
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful. — Gertrude Stein
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within,… — James A. Baldwin
Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they… — Richard Paul Evans
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices… — Colin Wilson
We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children… — Colin Meloy
We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for… — Steven Pinker
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon… — Leon Trotsky
If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in… — Noam Chomsky
I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand,… — Emily Giffin
I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty… — Milan Kundera
The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse… — Thomas Berry
Spiritually, no action is more important than surrender. Surrender is the tenderest impulse of the heart, acting out of love to give whatever the beloved… — Deepak Chopra
I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates. — Kevin Durand
The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan… — Marcus du Sautoy
Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am. — David Harsanyi
As I walked up the imposing steps of the Royal Academy, I came fact to face with Alwen Hughes. She looked just as stunning as… — Rolf Harris
The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective… — Charles H. Townes

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