Quotes About Imposition

Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.

The imposition of British rule (as in Egypt in 1882) practically amounted to a 'no default' guarantee; the only uncertainty investors had to face concerned the expected duration of British rule.

La dimensión ética empieza cuando entra en escena el otro. Toda ley, moral o jurídica, regula siempre relaciones interpersonales, incluidas las relaciones con ese Otro que la ley la impone.

io devo sapere. Devo Dovete? Chi ve lo impone, ormai? Nessuno ci impone di sapere, Adso. Si deve, ecco tutto, anche a costo di capire male

I assure you, Mr. Truman, you have to choose between a Socialist Europe and a Communist Europe, and I think the same thing applies to Asia. If we try to impose 'private enterprise,' we shall have to do it with military forces, and do it over and over again, putting down one attempt at revolution after another.

Still, feeling deeply that his filth was as unforgivable imposition, he'd chosen to bathe first, and thus had he discovered, at the age of twenty, the incomparable pleasure of submergence in hot water. Who knew?

You ain't no woodstove; you can't just squat in the middle of my house and stew.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Fashion is an imposition, a rein on freedom.

Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy. Triumph

drowned in the sea of annihilation." Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.

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 be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils.

In the significance of names, that from which the name is derived is different sometimes from what it is intended to signify, as for instance, this name "stone" [lapis] is imposed from the fact that it hurts the foot [loedit pedem], but it is not imposed to signify that which hurts the foot, but rather to signify a certain kind of body; otherwise everything that hurts the foot would be a stone [*This refers to the Latin etymology of the word "lapis" which has no place in English].

Respect for religion is the opposite of religious tolerance, because it allows the intolerant to impose their will on others.

she could not help knowing it, the torch of her beauty; she carried it erect into any room that she entered; and after all, veil it as she might, and shrink from the monotony of bearing that it imposed on her, her beauty was apparent.

Let him be fifty feet away, let him not even speak to you, let him not even see you, he permeated, he prevailed, he imposed himself. He changed everything.

We're no longer trying to impose our will on non-Christians. We're trying to keep non-Christians from imposing their will on us—and our churches. If you haven't noticed, the culture wars are over. We lost.

Up, then, would come Mrs General; taking all the colour out of everything, as Nature and Art had taken it out of herself;

Just as many Muslims believe that one day—simply due to its innate doctrinal superiority—Islam may ultimately become the religion of all mankind, so do reconstructionists believe that one day Christianity will be acknowledged by all and will thus come to dominate the world. Imposition by force is undesirable, unnecessary, and counterproductive to the longer goal; it will simply come.

We must choose dialogue over confrontation, and peaceful settlement of disputes over unilateral acts of imposition.

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 culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life.