Quotes about Imposed

Imposed philosophical morality (laws/rules) will not save the world. Only a calculated tangible plan to alter our circumstances so such actions pose no merit will stop immoral behaviour. Votes: 3

The difficulty, if you're in the world - and this is for anybody - is the eventual disappointment that comes with having to meet other versions of reality. Imposed systems that ask you to compromise or sacrifice things which you consider holy or sacred. Votes: 3

The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids. Votes: 2

Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country. Votes: 2

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement. Votes: 2

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society. Votes: 2

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable. Votes: 2

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. Votes: 2

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful. Votes: 2

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. Votes: 2

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. Votes: 2

To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else. Votes: 2

For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears. Votes: 2

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. Votes: 2

For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved. Votes: 2

I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers. Votes: 2

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. Votes: 2

I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed? Votes: 2

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than. Votes: 2

I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net. Votes: 2

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action. Votes: 2

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation. Votes: 2

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently. Votes: 2

Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from one administration to the next. Never has there been the slightest deviation from the principle that a noncommunist regime must be imposed and defended, regardless of popular sentiment. Votes: 2

Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior. Votes: 2

See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored. Votes: 2

Education is imposed ignorance. Votes: 0

All limitations are self-imposed. Votes: 0

A change imposed is a change opposed. Votes: 0

Education is a system of imposed ignorance. Votes: 0

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed. Votes: 0

Obstacles are opportunities turned upside downor prisons self-imposed. Votes: 0

Solutions can't be imposed. That just fosters resentment. Votes: 0

There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice. Votes: 0

With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish Votes: 0

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity? Votes: 0

Make no conditions and none will be imposed. Votes: 0

Most of the time, our limitations are self-imposed. Votes: 0

I had an economic system imposed on me. Votes: 0

Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed. Votes: 0

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society. Votes: 0

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment. Votes: 0

To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed. Votes: 0

One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on. Votes: 0

Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation. Votes: 0

In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia Votes: 0

Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society. Votes: 0

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have. Votes: 0

Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others. Votes: 0

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless. Votes: 0

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. Votes: 0

Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation. Votes: 0

Socialism appeals to me. It's like imposed Christianity. You've got to share. Votes: 0

Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it. Votes: 0

Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture. Votes: 0

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. Votes: 0

Many people live in a self-imposed prison and don't even know it. Votes: 0

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed Votes: 0

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. Votes: 0

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation Votes: 0

Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law. Votes: 0

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit. Votes: 0

Respect toward others can't be imposed.It's a blessing...or learning the hard way. Votes: 0

There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting. Votes: 0

The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law. Votes: 0

He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade. Votes: 0

My belief is that most of the limitations people have or face are self-imposed. Votes: 0

The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions. Votes: 0

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean. Votes: 0

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Votes: 0

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon. Votes: 0

There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss. Votes: 0

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law. Votes: 0

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man. Votes: 0

I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around Votes: 0

I have always had deep concerns about anyone's philosophy being imposed on the entire community. Votes: 0

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia. Votes: 0

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government. Votes: 0

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within." Votes: 0

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within. Votes: 0

Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought. Votes: 0

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation. Votes: 0

Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life. Votes: 0

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement. Votes: 0

We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you. Votes: 0

We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking. Votes: 0

This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it. Votes: 0

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry. Votes: 0

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power. Votes: 0

Your self-imposed prison. That think called your COMFORT ZONE. Challenge it, stretch it. You will thank yourself. Votes: 0

For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped. Votes: 0

The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention. Votes: 0

Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up. Votes: 0

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed. Votes: 0

Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal. Votes: 0

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship. Votes: 0

The English imposed their language on Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and they weren't terribly nice about it. Votes: 0

Limits are self-imposed. But there are no limits to human energy nor the goals you can achieve. Votes: 0

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? Votes: 0

To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God. Votes: 0

I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me. Votes: 0

Greatness can't be imposed; it has to come from within. But it does live within all of us. Votes: 0

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies. Votes: 0

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations. Votes: 0

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. Votes: 0

I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids. Votes: 0

I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it. Votes: 0

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect. Votes: 0

Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering Votes: 0

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. Votes: 0

I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals. Votes: 0

Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love. Votes: 0

It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different. Votes: 0

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest. Votes: 0

Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states. Votes: 0

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke. Votes: 0

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school. Votes: 0

The economy grows when families can spend money on personal priorities rather than priorities imposed by the federal government. Votes: 0

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed. Votes: 0

Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves. Votes: 0

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all. Votes: 0

If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance. Votes: 0

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion. Votes: 0

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language Votes: 0

Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons. Votes: 0

People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress. Votes: 0

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. Votes: 0

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship. Votes: 0

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth. Votes: 0

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. Votes: 0

Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed. Votes: 0

Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands. Votes: 0

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson. Votes: 0

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred. Votes: 0

The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace. Votes: 0

If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations. Votes: 0

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him. Votes: 0

Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful. Votes: 0

If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once. Votes: 0

It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others. Votes: 0

Of all the hurdles you will need to face in this life time the hardest will be your self imposed limitations Votes: 0

The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society. Votes: 0

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track. Votes: 0

Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude. Votes: 0

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory. Votes: 0

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory. Votes: 0

The budget targets imposed by the Bretton Woods institutions, combined with the effects of the devaluation, trigger the collapse of public investment. Votes: 0

Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups. Votes: 0

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are. Votes: 0

The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness. Votes: 0

The fantastic political and economic burdens imposed by that treaty have entirely disillusioned the German people and annihilated its belief in justice. Votes: 0

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others. Votes: 0

Through pro-growth policies, by abolishing Obamacare and eliminating other Obama-imposed impediments to economic growth, we will get our economy back on track. Votes: 0

Practice unfettered living from the heart, abandoning all self-imposed limitations to emerge a new, creativity unleashed, giving of yourself like never before. Votes: 0

Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex. Votes: 0

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him. Votes: 0

Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed. Votes: 0

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. Votes: 0

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states. Votes: 0

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others. Votes: 0

In contrast with the law, which imposed giving as a divine requirement, Christian giving is voluntary, and a test of sincerity and love. Votes: 0

If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving. Votes: 0

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war. Votes: 0

Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect. Votes: 0

The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me. Votes: 0

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it. Votes: 0

I was kind of overwhelmed by the idea that we are just balls of energy and that we have imposed terms on feelings. Votes: 0

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.' Votes: 0

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all. Votes: 0

Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer. Votes: 0

Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness. Votes: 0

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives. Votes: 0

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation. Votes: 0

I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous. Votes: 0

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead. Votes: 0

Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed upon you. Votes: 0

The only authentic responsibility is towards your own potential. Values have not to be imposed on you. They should grow with your awareness, in you. Votes: 0

One of many ways to be useful is to inspire people to forget some rules imposed by society. IMPORTANT rules are dictated by our hearts. Votes: 0

Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning. Votes: 0

The sanctions may be imposed only by the decision of the UN Security Council. A unilateral imposition of sanctions is a violation of international law. Votes: 0

There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another. Votes: 0

True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward. Votes: 0

There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest. Votes: 0

The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone. Votes: 0

Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society. Votes: 0

Anything that you have imposed on yourself to be unhappy, to be bound, is a concept. It is an imaginary concept, so give it away. Votes: 0

I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me. Votes: 0

A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure. Votes: 0

Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties. Votes: 0

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true Votes: 0

For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia despite a Shiite majority. Votes: 0

Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate that, cultivated from within. Votes: 0

The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant. Votes: 0

corporate globalization is being relentlessly and arbitrarily imposed on an essentially feudal society, tearing through its complex, tiered social fabric, ripping it apart culturally and economically. Votes: 0

Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed? Votes: 0

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government. Votes: 0

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad. Votes: 0

My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities. Votes: 0

Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance. Votes: 0

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness. Votes: 0

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things. Votes: 0

Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults. Votes: 0

We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody. Votes: 0

The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation. Votes: 0

Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas imposed upon them by events. Votes: 0

Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force. Votes: 0

Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy. Votes: 0

The sentence imposed on Abdul Kadir sends a powerful and clear message. We will bring to justice those who plot to attack the United States of America. Votes: 0

To me, the haircut represented beauty and strength, that I was a woman who would live her life without the boundaries imposed upon her by other people. Votes: 0

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. Votes: 0

Be all you can be in whatever you choose to do. The sky is the limit, so go for it. And do not create any self-imposed limitations. Votes: 0

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship. Votes: 0

Love is a feeling that is imposed on you. You cannot be lazy; it is up to you to make things work and make the best of it. Votes: 0

The key to breaking the Taliban taboo against women and the cultural brainwashing that the Taliban imposed upon many Afghans is to get women back into the workforce. Votes: 0

They say love is all about raging hormones. For me, it's mind's way of breaking through its self-imposed limitations in order to set the eternally ecstatic soul free." Votes: 0

I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world were so strict. Votes: 0

I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries. Votes: 0

The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world. Votes: 0

Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked. Votes: 0

That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me. Votes: 0

Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men. Votes: 0

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance. Votes: 0

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself. Votes: 0

Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially. Votes: 0

All the concepts about stepping out of your comfort zone mean nothing until you decide that your essential purpose, vision and goals are more important than your self-imposed limitations Votes: 0

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. Votes: 0

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty. Votes: 0

Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust Votes: 0

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance. Votes: 0

I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about faith. It was just something gently imposed. Votes: 0

I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard. Votes: 0

The cross is not only imposed upon the saints as their burden, but bequeathed unto them as their legacy. It is given unto them as an honor and privilege. Votes: 0

Let him be fifty feet away, let him not even speak to you, let him not even see you, he permeated, he prevailed, he imposed himself. He changed everything. Votes: 0

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself. Votes: 0

A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase and a phase of decomposition. Votes: 0

The wife's submission is not a matter of superior versus inferior; rather, it is self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the Lord and of love for her husband. Votes: 0

... our reality teaches us that, as Christians, we must create a Church of the poor, that we don't need a Church imposed from outside which knows nothing of hunger. Votes: 0

Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order. Votes: 0

The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history has imposed upon them. Votes: 0

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way. Votes: 0

The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein. Votes: 0

I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question. Votes: 0

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders. Votes: 0

For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it. Votes: 0

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing. Votes: 0

Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income. Votes: 0

Given their unusual privilege, Western intellectuals can realistically accomplish a great deal. The limits are imposed by will more than objective circumstances. And about human will predictions are without value. Votes: 0

Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic. Votes: 0

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness. Votes: 0

There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition. Votes: 0

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature. Votes: 0

Jungles and grasslands are the logical destinations, and towns and farmland the labyrinths that people have imposed between them sometime in the past. I cherish the green enclaves accidentally left behind. Votes: 0

Jungles and grasslands are the logical destinations, and towns and farmland the labyrinths that people have imposed between them sometime in the past. I cherish the green enclaves accidentally left behind. Votes: 0

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside. Votes: 0

By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain. Votes: 0

Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love. Votes: 0

Morality comes from religion? There are no Baptist babies or Catholic babies or Muslim babies. Religion is imposed on children by adults and society, and morality is an evolutionary adaptation. Period. Votes: 0

The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent. Votes: 0

Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right. Votes: 0

Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom. Votes: 0

A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled. Votes: 0

English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens. Votes: 0

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred. Votes: 0

[Donald] Trump`s incoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn, spoke on the phone with Russia`s ambassador the same day President Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and imposed new sanctions on Russia. Votes: 0

I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions. Votes: 0

We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels. Votes: 0

What a forced lifestyle our technology, our inventions imposed on our lives when we tried to live synonymously with computers; when we stepped inside their world, we left the natural one behind. Votes: 0

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Votes: 0

Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible. Votes: 0

The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic relations, we do not staff our embassy there. Votes: 0

The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed. Votes: 0

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom. Votes: 0

Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land. Votes: 0

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me. Votes: 0

A happy life, a life making full use of all our potential is and must be a balanced life. The obstacles to it are mainly illusory; most of our limitations are self-imposed. Votes: 0

I am fashionably unimpressed with the material world. I am moved by the beauty of aspiration, and I hope that I can elevate myself to the standards I have imposed on others. Votes: 0

Our fears and taboos are largely social conditions imposed upon us by the ruling powers in order to keep us opressed. They manipulate us with our fears. Now let us be fearless. Votes: 0

No logo, and you don't advertise for anyone. I don't believe in imposed luxury. I believe in built luxury. Something you refine with your own taste. Mass luxury is not my luxury. Votes: 0

Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances. Votes: 0

As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work. Votes: 0

Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent. Votes: 0

A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr. Votes: 0

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. Votes: 0

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force. Votes: 0

I think we're insecure about our self-imposed spot at the top of the pyramid of life. New studies are continually undermining our superiority complex and forcing us to reconsider our relationship to animals. Votes: 0

Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses. Votes: 0

The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be. Votes: 0

The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her ... her eyes were her own. Votes: 0

Twice a year, I take myself off to a self-imposed 'writer's retreat', staying at a small inn or on a friend's farm, where I am all alone and do nothing other than write. Votes: 0

There's this emotion we all feel of being overwhelmed at times, feeling that you can't get ahead. For me it's self-imposed because I'm so driven and I'm always going from project to project. Votes: 0

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated. Votes: 0

I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual. Votes: 0

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants. Votes: 0

In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true. Votes: 0

[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart. Votes: 0

Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity. Votes: 0

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office. Votes: 0

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation, or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office. Votes: 0

In the end, we all want a wife. But the home has become increasingly invaded by the ethos of work, work, work, with twin sets of external clocks imposed on a household's natural rhythms. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race. Votes: 0

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so. Votes: 0

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar. Votes: 0

Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him. Votes: 0

In Indonesia, where I am from, the Dutch-imposed Civil Code dating back to the colonial 1870s prevailed until the 1974 Law on Marriage granted married women greater rights, including the ability to open individual bank accounts. Votes: 0

Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars. Votes: 0

Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members of our society. The only moral thing to do is to repeal it. Votes: 0

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being. Votes: 0

Karma isn't fate. Nor is it a punishment imposed on us by some external agent. We create our own karma. Karma is the result of the choices that we make every moment of every day. Votes: 0

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing. Votes: 0

The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of the child from superstitions imposed upon it by ignorant nurses or silly mothers. Votes: 0

There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory. Votes: 0

In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco. Votes: 0

A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external. Votes: 0

My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them. Votes: 0

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar. Votes: 0