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Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. -- Confucius
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance. -- Max Weber
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. -- Ernest Hemingway
I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else. -- Ben Carson
I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else. -- Robert Smith
My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place. -- Bernard Tschumi
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. -- Ansel Adams
Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder. -- Alice Miller
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs. -- Simon Hoggart
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony. -- Noam Chomsky
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. -- David Bohm
These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way. -- Marco Rubio
Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men. -- Rush Limbaugh
After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface. -- Edward Hopper
Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you. -- Nick Clegg
Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution. -- Bobby Ray Inman
And in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement: who knew that when asked, 'will government impose a new federal mandate requiring middle class Americans to buy health insurance whether they can afford it or not?' The answer would be 'Yes we can!' -- Artur Davis
There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective - that is really important. She is tolerant, but she can impose discipline. She is affectionate. She plays. And the most important of all: she is supportive. -- Jane Goodall
The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers. -- Zac Goldsmith
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case. -- John Rawls
I don't want to impose rules on people, but you have only a short window, and you're sorely mistaken if you think you can put off having a family. It's very hard to find a good man, and it's never a 'good time' to have a baby if you have a career. -- Mika Brzezinski
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. -- Rick Santorum
We have been spending beyond our means, we are going to focus on the projects that we committed to in the election but importantly if there is additional projects or new things that come up they have to have a business case, they have to work and they can't impose financial stress on families and private individuals and businesses. -- Campbell Newman
If the United States has to accept the U.N. resolutions, we have to generalize it across the board. We can't just pick and choose where we impose and accept the U.N. resolution and don't accept them. U.N. Resolution 242 is very clear and states very clearly that Israel has to go back to the borders of the pre-war of 1967. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge. -- Barbara Park
There are different ways that kids who are gay take on the rejection and alienation they feel. The way I dealt with it was to say, 'You know what? You're imposing judgments on me and condemnations, but I don't accept them. I'm going to instead turn the light on you and see what your flaws are and impose the same judgmental standards on you.' -- Glenn Greenwald
Age is a limit we impose on ourselves. -- H. B. Warner
We are not seeking to impose a recall. -- Joel Klein
Foreign countries should impose sanctions against Putin's corrupt network. -- Alexei Navalny
You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me. -- John Green
The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves. -- Jacque Fresco
Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order -- Victor Papanek
Don't impose yourself until you really know the work throroughly. -- William Boughton
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach. -- Abbie Hoffman
Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions. -- Laozi
If you don't want to do something,don't impose on others -- Confucius
He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you. -- William Blake
I have to impose my belief to share with a person. -- Greg Laurie
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them. -- Seneca the Younger
What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others. -- Epictetus
You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly. -- Peter F. Hamilton
Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others. -- Rush Limbaugh
Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made. -- Alan Rickman
There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values. -- Ronald Reagan
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity. -- Guy de Maupassant
Ruud Gullit was able to impose his multi-lingual skills on this match. -- John Motson
Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth. -- Ken Schoolland
It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts, -- Louis Althusser
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves. -- Bob Proctor
What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life. -- Carl Jung
Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper. -- Jeremy Collier
Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves. -- Bear Grylls
We impose the form of the old on the content of the new. -- Marshall McLuhan
That which you do not wish for yourself, do not impose on others. -- Umar
The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force. -- Peter DeFazio
I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down. -- David Douglas Duncan
People come along and impose their own stuff on plays, and it shows. -- Judd Hirsch
One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits. -- Suzanne Curchod
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas. -- Richard Stallman
Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat. -- Vo Nguyen Giap
As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses. -- Jonny Greenwood
You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking. -- George Sand
The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself. -- Jim Rohn
I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be. -- JR
Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control. -- Peter R. Scholtes
We dominate the scene and we will continue to impose our will on this country. -- Paul Bremer
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. -- Noam Chomsky
Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users. -- Douglas Crockford
We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers. -- Gordon Bethune
A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much. -- Anthony Hopkins
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished. -- Julius Caesar
A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have. -- Chris Ware
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth. -- Benjamin Whichcote
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. -- Simon Hoggart
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. -- Terri Windling
For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me. -- Joseph Scheidler
We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos. -- Julianne Moore
When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result. -- Marshall McLuhan
(Not) even the US can impose peace: it has to be genuinely accepted by both parties involved. -- Margaret Thatcher
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. -- Stanislaw Lem
Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion. -- Anne Carson
I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family. -- Nita Ambani
War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence. -- Scott Nearing
War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence. -- Scott Nearing
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide. -- William Shakespeare
If the nuclear program is indeed meant only for civil purposes, then it is wrong to impose sanctions. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop. -- George W. Bush
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers. -- George Orwell
We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential. -- Wendy Lesser
However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will. -- Velupillai Prabhakaran
Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way? -- William Stafford
Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind. -- Allen Ginsberg
There are certain things in life that have limits, but you don't unless you impose limits on yourself. -- Grant Cardone
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material. -- William Zinsser
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country? -- Cal Thomas
The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan. -- Chuck Hagel
Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel. -- H. L. Mencken
I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist. -- Michael Lewis
The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others. -- Anais Nin
Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. -- Henry David Thoreau
The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God. -- Phillips Brooks
The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law. -- Mario Cuomo
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I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me. -- David Lipsky
If you want to be a crazy person, go for it. But don't impose it on your kids. -- Jon Glaser
Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life?but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations. -- Sarah Churchwell
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure. -- Shirin Ebadi
Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs. -- Thomas Sowell
Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them. -- Paul Collier
A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling. -- Curt Sachs
We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force. -- Barack Obama
Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile. -- Ed Rendell
Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice. -- Noam Chomsky
I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society. -- Nelson Rockefeller
If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe. -- Patrick Rothfuss
It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself. -- Karolina Kurkova
The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it. -- Joanne Harris

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