Quotes About Enforced

For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.

What is not forbidden is compulsory.

Abigail Adams, who did not set sail until November, seemed miffed by the enforced southward shift, swearing that she would try to enjoy Philadelphia but that "when all is done it will not be Broadway.

When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

It was vague in meaning and poorly enforced and so riddled with loopholes that it was popularly derided as the Swiss Cheese Act.

Many of the Ten Commandments can still claim validity today. But the Fourth Commandment is diametrically opposed to the laws of psychology. It is imperative that there be general recognition of the fact that enforced "love" can do a very great deal of harm. People who were loved in childhood will love their parents in return. There is no need of a commandment to tell them to do so. Obeying a commandment can never be the basis for love.

Enforced love is not love. All it can lead to is a sham relationship without any genuine communication, a pretense of warmth and cordiality that does not really exist, a false avowal of affection designed to mask resentment or possibly even hatred.

have known that their Edict, if enforced, was the clear equivalent of an order to create an illicit drug industry. They must have known that they were in effect ordering a company of drug smugglers into existence.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Laws convey the myth of enforced change. A bright new future will come because of this law or that one. Laws enforce the future.

In our digital age, the Golden Rule is not enforced online.

In the early 1990s, at the beginning of the Taliban regime, there had been a sort of relief that there was some law and order in the country, but that quickly turned bitter when the shariah was enforced.

There is nothing more onerous than enforced gratitude.

What kind of a peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.

The Governors did not care about the mortality of the humor-made laws they enforced. Or their irony either.

I shrugged, and wondered if Pearl could see in that simple gesture the pain of losing an enforced religion because somebody gave you the switch and you were curious enough to turn it off.

Confiscatory taxation enforced by threat of imprisonment is 'stealing,' a practice strongly frowned upon by our Creator.

I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

the wild velocity of motherhood, an enforced momentum forbidding contemplation.

In an unconscious gesture of television-enforced democracy

But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted—and you create a nation of lawbreakers—and then you cash in on guilt.