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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. -- Peter Joseph
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. -- Billy Corgan
The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids. -- Antonio Banderas
Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country. -- Emile Lahoud
Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement. -- Andrew Bernstein
More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society. -- Pope Francis
In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable. -- Kirk Cameron
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. -- David Blaine
History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful. -- Noam Chomsky
The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. -- Dalton Trumbo
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. -- George Bernard Shaw
To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else. -- David A. Bednar
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. -- Malcolm X
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. -- Frederick Douglass
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. -- Henri Nouwen
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. -- Michael Newdow
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. -- Jacques Ellul
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. -- David Icke
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. -- John Henrik Clarke
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? -- Angelina Grimke
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. -- Mark Knopfler
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. -- Steven Pinker
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. -- Rand Paul
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. -- Judith Butler
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. -- Ben Carson
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. -- Noam Chomsky
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. -- Tony Campolo
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. -- Garrett Hedlund
Education is imposed ignorance. -- Noam Chomsky
All limitations are self-imposed. -- Ernest Holmes
A change imposed is a change opposed. -- Spencer Johnson
Education is a system of imposed ignorance. -- Noam Chomsky
The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed. -- Denis Waitley
Obstacles are opportunities turned upside downor prisons self-imposed. -- Chriscinthia Blount
Solutions can't be imposed. That just fosters resentment. -- Ross W. Greene
There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice. -- Baroness Orczy
With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish -- Alexander the Great
Why will we be imposed on by antiquity? -- Henry David Thoreau
Make no conditions and none will be imposed. -- Swami Vivekananda
Most of the time, our limitations are self-imposed. -- Marcus Buckingham
I had an economic system imposed on me. -- Lauryn Hill
Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed. -- Rush Limbaugh
The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society. -- George Sand
You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment. -- Michael Foot
To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed. -- Rod Taylor
One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on. -- Philip Roth
Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation. -- Elbert Hubbard
In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia -- Nat Hentoff
Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have. -- Bill Vaughan
Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others. -- Felix Adler
My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless. -- Dionne Warwick
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. -- Marshall McLuhan
Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation. -- Victoria Moran
Socialism appeals to me. It's like imposed Christianity. You've got to share. -- Lewis Black
Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it. -- Paul de Rapin
Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture. -- James Patterson
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. -- Gerald Jampolsky
Many people live in a self-imposed prison and don't even know it. -- Lee L Jampolsky
It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed -- Paul Muldoon
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. -- Milton Friedman
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation -- Milton Friedman
Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law. -- Benvenuto Cellini
For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit. -- Philip Roth
Respect toward others can't be imposed.It's a blessing...or learning the hard way. -- Toba Beta
There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting. -- Van Day Truex
The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law. -- Caspar David Friedrich
He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade. -- Saint Augustine
My belief is that most of the limitations people have or face are self-imposed. -- Rush Limbaugh
The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions. -- Raheel Farooq
I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean. -- George Eliot
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. -- Lord Chesterfield
I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon. -- Augustus William Hare
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True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around -- Coco Chanel
I have always had deep concerns about anyone's philosophy being imposed on the entire community. -- Kelvin Ogilvie
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia. -- Angela Davis
I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government. -- Esther Dyson
Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within." -- Dawson Trotman
Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within. -- Dawson Trotman
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought. -- Edward Kasner
Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation. -- Edith Wharton
Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life. -- Tony Horton
Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement. -- Andrew Bernstein
We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you. -- Laverne Cox
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it. -- Dallas Willard
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry. -- Erica Jong
The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power. -- Bianca Jagger
Your self-imposed prison. That think called your COMFORT ZONE. Challenge it, stretch it. You will thank yourself. -- Tony Curl
For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped. -- Greg Egan
The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention. -- Frances G. Wickes
Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up. -- Philip Yancey
Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal. -- Russell L. Ackoff
When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship. -- Terry Tempest Williams
The English imposed their language on Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and they weren't terribly nice about it. -- Howard Tomb
Limits are self-imposed. But there are no limits to human energy nor the goals you can achieve. -- Mike Shanahan
Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? -- Anthony Burgess
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I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me. -- Nicholas Brendon
Greatness can't be imposed; it has to come from within. But it does live within all of us. -- Jeff Sutherland
Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies. -- Andy Hargreaves
You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. -- Henry David Thoreau
I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids. -- Hume Cronyn
I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it. -- Elaine de Kooning
There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect. -- Walid Jumblatt
Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering -- Zora Neale Hurston
I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. -- Mikhail Bakunin
I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals. -- Stella Young
Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love. -- Michael Xavier
It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different. -- Nancy Horan
The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest. -- Dean Acheson
Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states. -- Lawrence Lessig
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school. -- Alfie Allen
The economy grows when families can spend money on personal priorities rather than priorities imposed by the federal government. -- Mike Crapo

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