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Quotes About Imposed

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In reality, the events that we label as outcomes are never really endpoints. Instead, they are artificially imposed milestones, just as the ending of a movie is really an artificial end to what in reality would be an ongoing story. And depending on where we choose to impose an "end" to a process, we may infer very different lessons from the outcome.
~ Duncan J. Watts
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
~ Dallas Willard
So, there are lots of different reasons why people came out to protest Boris Johnson, but what they were united in was their disdain for a system which has imposed a prime minister who is deeply divisive on the rest of the electorate.
~ Ash Sarkar
Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.
~ Frederick Pollock
That lesson is unambiguous: culture matters. But it cannot be imposed. If a government takes its legitimacy from the consent of the governed, so does a school. The full benefit and effect is obtained only when all parties involved share a common vision, entered voluntarily and by choice.
~ Robert Pondiscio
a paradox: architecture can only escape the flatness imposed by drawing through drawing.
~ Robin Evans
As he put it, "I know that in my own case I have been greatly helped by the confidence imposed in me since early boyhood."22 Of course, this boyhood responsibility took its toll on John D., who experienced little of the spontaneous joy or levity of youth.
~ Ron Chernow
If you had to define stress, it would not be far off if you said it was the process of living. The process of living is the process of having stress imposed on you and reacting to it.
~ Stanley Sarnoff
Mexico is not deciding this policy . . . This war, this criminalization strategy, is imposed by the U.S. government.
~ Johann Hari
Tercero: debes comprender que esa «programación» te ha sido impuesta por personas inseguras que, cuando aún eras muy joven e impresionable, te enseñaron, con su comportamiento
~ Anthony de Mello
When projects like a pipeline are imposed on a province without a buy-in, without a collaborate approach, they just don't go ahead. What happens is they get caught up in court, there's court challenges, the project doesn't proceed.
~ Jagmeet Singh
The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.
~ Edward Sapir
Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.
~ Adrienne Shelly
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
~ Tom Stoppard
We are being conditioned to surrender privacy and political liberties for the sake of comfort, convenience, and an artificially imposed social harmony.
~ Rod Dreher
For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.
~ Philip Roth, Exit Ghost
There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.
~ Alfie Allen
Although I imposed on myself an appearance of self-assurance and an iron discipline, I gave in continuously, with painful pleasure, to waves of unhappiness.
~ Elena Ferrante
Hay situaciones en que las elecciones te vienen impuestas
~ Elena Ferrante
I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.
~ David Icke
Karma is the natural basis of all existence. It is not a law that is imposed from above. It does not allow us to outsource our responsibility anywhere else; it does not allow us to blame our parents, our teachers, our countries, our politicians, our gods, or our fates. It makes each one of us squarely responsible for our own destinies and, above all, the nature of our experience of life.
~ Sadhguru
Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own.
~ Margaret Mitchell