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Quotes About Imposes

The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others
~ Adolf Hitler
Somehow, with the passage of time, and the deadlines that life imposes, surrendering became the right thing to do.
~ Randy Pausch
The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.
~ Philip K. Dick
The word violence comes from roots that mean "the undue use of force." Thought that imposes or defends is violent.
~ William Isaacs
Unlikely truths are useful and life is full of them, far more than the very worst of novels, no novel would ever dare give houseroom to the infinite number of chances and coincidences that can occur in a single lifetime, let alone all those that have already occurred and continue to occur. It's quite shameful the way reality imposes no limits on itself.
~ Javier Marías
It's quite shameful the way reality imposes no limits on itself.
~ Javier Marías
If I talk about her like she's a being It's because talking about her I need to use the language of men Which gives personality to things, And imposes a name on things.
~ Alberto Caeiro
Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!
~ Thomas Paine
I'm not the kind of director who imposes his processes on everybody else.
~ John Curran
Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
~ Hugo Ball
I bring you nothing: no riches, no magic. But I don't need that; I don't want that. All I have to offer is my love, but that love has no limits and imposes none on you.
~ Sarah Kozloff
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
Democrats fight where they have policy concerns... war for democrats is just another way of achieving the goals for which foreign aid would otherwise be used. Foreign aid buys policy concessions, war imposes them... democrats would much prefer to impose a compliant dictator,... then take their chances on the policies adopted by a democrat who must answer to her own domestic constituents
~ Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
~ Pablo Picasso
Awright Al? I asked him. A silly question really. Convention always imposes its lunacy on us at such inappropriate times.
~ Irvine Welsh
When the federal government imposes a mandate on the states or supersedes a state policy, conservatives often rise in protest.
~ Tom Perez
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
~ Robert Smithson
A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing that is possible. Revolution is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets, and cannons, i.e. extremely authoritarian means
~ Vladimir Lenin
Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is an act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon, all of which are highly authoritarian means.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.
~ George Zimmerman
All living things are looking to gain an advantage for themselves, but the process also imposes a burden on them. Generally speaking, the potential gain right in front of you causes you to forget the potential disaster right behind you. The two are connected." Chuang Tzu
~ Derek Lin
The tone is not the writer's voice, but the intimacy of the silence he imposes upon the word. This implies that the silence is still his—what remains of him in the discretion that sets him aside. The tone makes great writers, but perhaps the work is indifferent to what makes them great.
~ Maurice Blanchot