Quotes About Impose

The men of today boast of the ever growing extent of the modifications they impose on the world, and the consequence is that everything is thereby made more and more 'artificial'…

there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.

And the weakness of our policy is that every time we impose economic sanctions, to punish the Japanese for their aggression, it only reinforces their feeling that they've got to be self-sufficient.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)A good novel editor is invisible.

You are the guest of joy, you cannot impose yourself.

One does not impose conditions on de Gaulle!

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

Many evangelicals have a difficult time adjusting to a highly pluralistic culture, and we often come across as trying to impose our standards—which

It's odd, really. Trying to impose order on nature. The garden is a living, breathing thing; sometimes I'm quite sure it's got a mind of its own.

It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As a matter of fact, a dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.     41

It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people.

I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.

I had done it stupid, early in my career at CIA, by trying to impose significant change by edict from the top.

Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.

king is a servant when he mimics other kings without understanding. A king is a trader when he uses rules to get all the things that he desires. A king is a master when he uses rules to impose his thoughts on those around him. A king is a seer when he understands the thought behind the rules and so appreciates the many reasons why a rule is followed and why another rule is not.

I had seen my refusal as not wanting to impose; they saw my change as giving them an opportunity to help.

So we are being systematically trained to fear this false rising crime' tide. This is all part of a system to lock up more people, and impose more control and surveillance.

To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose.

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.

Our national political campaigns never stop. We seem convinced that majorities exist to impose their will with few concessions and that minorities exist to prevent the party in power from doing anything important. That's not how we were meant to govern.