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No public funding for abortion; it imposes a view. -- Joe Biden
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one -- Igor Stravinsky
One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on. -- Philip Roth
Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored. -- John Maynard Smith
God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it. -- John Ruskin
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. -- Peter Drucker
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. -- Norbert Wiener
....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear. -- Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. -- Joseph Stalin
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on. -- Terence McKenna
A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy. -- Gerhard
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. -- Vincent Van Gogh
It's to me one simple rule. Who imposes his will on the other man? -- Bert Sugar
Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes -- Franklin P. Adams
For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality. -- Gaspard Ulliel
The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict. -- Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor
The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved. -- Pope John Paul II
Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature. -- Immanuel Kant
rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos. -- John Forbes Nash
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Never tell me the sky is the limit when the zoning code clearly imposes a stricter limit. -- Paul Brandt
Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience. -- Anthony Eden
The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists. -- Erwin Schrodinger
This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system. -- Joseph Stalin
Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance. -- Pablo Picasso
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. -- Pliny the Elder
somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do -- Randy Pausch
What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society. -- Steven Weber
Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves. -- John Dryden
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. -- Albert Camus
Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too. -- George Zimmerman
Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism. -- Lawrence Weiner
Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example. -- Noam Chomsky
Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive. -- Roberto Calasso
It is your attitude, and the suspicion that you are maturing the boldest designs against him, that imposes on your enemy. -- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him. -- Sun Tzu
Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results. -- Phil McGraw
Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him. -- Sun Tzu
If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble. -- Terry Pratchett
Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax. -- Nicholas Kristof
America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost. -- E. O. Wilson
Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this. -- Celine Dion
One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance. -- King Albert II
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. -- Igor Stravinsky
In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer. -- Henri Poincare
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
I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings. -- Theodore Bikel
Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. -- Chanakya
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous. -- Yehudi Menuhin
In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands. -- Anthony de Jasay
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. -- Mark Strand
Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents. -- Alexander Alekhine
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. -- Charles de Gaulle
One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us. -- Gustave Flaubert
Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them. -- Theodore Dalrymple
One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us. -- Gustave Flaubert
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation. -- Stephen Neill
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
There's this de facto assumption that for something to have value, it has to be economically self-supporting - which imposes a very low ceiling on a culture. -- George Saunders
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. -- Benito Mussolini
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man. -- John Dryden
John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes. -- Alfie Kohn
To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not. -- Allan Bloom
Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the appreciation of acoustic phenomena. -- Edward Miner Gallaudet
When an individual is awake, almost all he does and says is inspired by the model of behavior that the society imposes,even without his being aware of it. -- Erich Fromm
If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings. -- Paulo Freire
The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of restraints it imposes upon him. -- Herbert Spencer
Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. -- Dag Hammarskjold
I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures. -- Sally Hawkins
No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned under the banner of respect, equilibrium and trust. -- Francois Hollande
Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. -- James A. Baldwin
Taliban-esque: Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. With them, it's my way or no way. -- Whoopi Goldberg
If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest, we're not actually improving anything. We're not changing anything. -- Edward Snowden
All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils. -- Theodor Adorno
If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need. -- Andrew Lansley
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
The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant. -- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment. -- Terry Eagleton
With an evermore increase of industrialisation machine stops being merely a tool, develops a life of its own and imposes its rhythm onto human. Operating it he moves mechanically, becomes part of the machine. -- Heide Schönemann
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. -- Vijay Seshadri
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. -- Lewis H. Lapham
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
Destiny commands... and imposes a sacred obligation to show up in the face of one's desire for a normal, casual life... there are other forces afoot of which consciousness has only the dimmest of understandings... -- James Hollis
The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life. -- Carl Jung
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

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