Imposition Quotes

67 quotes by 63 authors

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom. — Golda Meir
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To… — Maria Montessori
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. — William Shakespeare
The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of… — Joan Didion
An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely,… — Jeremy Narby
War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something else.… — Steven Erikson
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and… — Charles Robert Maturin
Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is… — Curtis Sittenfeld
This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be… — Moderata Fonte
I have never been normal about my body. It has always seemed to me a strange and foreign entity. I don't know that there was… — Marya Hornbacher
The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant â€˜identityâ€™ (â€˜this is your duty as an Americanâ€™, â€˜you must commit these acts as… — Amartya Sen
Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to… — Joe Queenan
Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity. — Fausto Cercignani
Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can… — Muhammad Yunus
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written by… — Wole Soyinka
In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time:… — Noam Chomsky
There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique… — Bernardo Bertolucci
Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism, is not working for African-Americans. It is not working for Latinos and African-Americans. — Niger Innis

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