Quotes About Imposition

There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.

The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, overpowering of the strange and weaker, suppression, severity, imposition of one's own forms, incorporation and, at the least and mildest, exploitation.

Linden held that abortion was something that had been imposed upon women by men, Meta said that if it hadn't been for men having no self-control and simply using women as receptacles, abortion would never have been necessary. Either way, they were agreed that it was the fault of men.

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.

True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

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 be removed. It is just a question of doing it.

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

Have you no respect?" Lando stopped, gave the robot a sober look. "Not a grain of it—not when it's being imposed on me by the architecture.

Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

The very thought of such people's intolerant worldview, their inflated sense of self superiority, and their callous imposition of their own beliefs on others was enough to fill her with rage.

more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.

Conquest is shown to be an arbitrary act devoid of distinction and significance.

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.

The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

A society where one set of religious views is imposed on a large number of citizens who disagree with them is not a democracy. It's a theocracy. Yet