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Quotes About Impose

I'd rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time.
~ Larry David
The problem of poverty must force us to innovate, not claim rights to impose our solutions.
~ C.K. Prahalad
Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.
~ Daley Thompson
Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
~ Alejo Carpentier
I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.
~ David Douglas Duncan
The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system whether political, religious or economic that is rejected by large number of the people they are ruling
~ Naomi Klein
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.
~ Eric Hoffer
The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices - paid by others.
~ Thomas Sowell
What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
~ Thomas Sowell
The world dominance of Great Britain enabled it to impose its anti-slavery edicts on many other sovereign nations.
~ Thomas Sowell
I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer.
~ burroughs william s ii
What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.
~ Carl Jung
When you live in chaos as a child, you strive to impose order over the world. Unfortunately, the world refuses to comply, so you have to settle for trying to control yourself, your habitat, and your friends.
~ Ilona Andrews
Son implacables, predican amor, justicia y caridad, y para imponerlas cometen atrocidades.
~ Isabel Allende
The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them.
~ George W. Bush
Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.
~ Thomas Sowell
It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I have been left with no choice other than to leave.
~ Kevin Keegan
Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat.
~ Vo Nguyen Giap
When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.
~ Saint Augustine
But I mind fanatics, the ones who try to impose their beliefs on you.
~ Susan Lewis
Our tendency to perceive—to impose—narrativity and causality are symptoms of the same disease—dimension reduction.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked.
~ Gore Verbinski
I can't understand why culture cops try and impose their brand of morality on others.
~ Shefali Zariwala
It didn't take me long to conclude that that was the only sensible approach to editing this book of yours. No editor can hope to impose his will on a performance like this one. We've got to let Tom run.
~ Tom Robbins