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Quotes About Enforced

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
~ William Howard Taft
This is significant because every segregation law in the South was passed by a Democratic legislature, signed into power by a Democratic governor, and enforced by Democratic sheriffs and Democratic city and state officials.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
how liberal democracy, already weakened at its own hand, is being undermined by the enforced negation of its principles by the onslaught of terrorism.
~ Manuel Castells
This was because intense physical suffering had enforced a regime on him. Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed: to kindness, to knowledge we make promises only; pain we obey.
~ Marcel Proust
Instead we were treated to virtual silence, plus the standard reaction by the legal mainstream and commentators in the press. This ruling was a problem. In difficult times too much money was involved. The ruling only stated a principle; surely it didn't need to be enforced. Perhaps it could be ignored.
~ John Ralston Saul
Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
~ Robert Frost
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
~ Frank Zappa
When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.
~ William Shakespeare
I skip Thanksgiving, dragging my malaise through December, with a prolonged period of enforced solitude, though sadly without crystalline effect.
~ Patti Smith
Massive starship building programme initiated in O'Neill Halo. Govcentral begins large-scale enforced outshipment of surplus population, rising to 2 million a week in 2160: Great Dispersal.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
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.
~ Peter Kropotkin