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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom. -- Golda Meir
An agreement cannot be the result of an imposition. -- Nestor Kirchner
What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views. -- Richard Dawkins
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. -- William Shakespeare
I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love. -- Concha Buika
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years. -- Bill Condon
If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures. -- Antonis Samaras
Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions. -- Alexander Dubcek
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator. -- Henry Flynt
However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate. -- Claudio Hummes
Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the creation and imposition of a European superstate, one centralised in Brussels. -- Charles Kennedy
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written by anybody, including dictators. -- Wole Soyinka
After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine they call shariah. -- Frank Gaffney
I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature. -- Maria Semple
There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white supremacy for which we all should make contrition. -- Robert Agostinelli
Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it. -- Muhammad Yunus
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience. -- Joan Didion
Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. -- Walter Lippmann
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. -- Maria Montessori
This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it. -- Josiah Warren
In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time: the massive Kennedy terror operation against Cuba, the first attacks on Vietnam in 1962, the imposition of national security states in South America. -- Noam Chomsky
The very idea that you could have separation between mosque and state from Islam's perspective is the imposition on them of Christian practice. Islam doesn't really have a place for state. They are a universalistic faith like Christianity, but they think there is no country that bounds Islam. -- Stanley Hauerwas
It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the case. In 1774, Benjamin Franklin wrote an open letter to the prime minister of Great Britain, Lord North - a satirical call for the imposition of martial law in the colonies. -- Roxane Gay
Simplicity is a delicate imposition. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A friend is never an imposition. -- Frank Sinatra
Design is the conscious imposition of meaningful order. -- Jonah Lehrer
Where there is love, there is no imposition. -- Albert Einstein
Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter. -- Marvin Bell
Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism. -- Lech Walesa
Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity. -- Fausto Cercignani
Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times. -- Joan Baez
Projects of personal transformation rarely if ever succeed by accident, drift or imposition. -- Dallas Willard
Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The imposition of anomalous models and lifestyles are alien to people's identity and, in the end, are irresponsible. -- Pope Francis
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images. -- Joan Didion
Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism, is not working for African-Americans. It is not working for Latinos and African-Americans. -- Niger Innis
more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will. -- Virginia Woolf
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. -- Wole Soyinka
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror. -- Amartya Sen
It is difficult to imagine a greater imposition than adding genes to future generations that changes the nature of future people. -- Ian Wilmut
I think that both pornography and the imposition (common in some areas of the world) of a dress code on women are problematic. -- Alison Assiter
All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction. -- Maureen Duffy
I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy. -- Samuel Richardson
Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition. -- Ernest Shackleton
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. -- Vladimir Putin
Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition. -- Andrzej Stasiuk
Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels. -- Charles Lamb
There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist. -- Jonah Goldberg
The very thought of such people's intolerant worldview, their inflated sense of self superiority, and their callous imposition of their own beliefs on others was enough to fill her with rage." -- Haruki Murakami
Gay sexuality inevitably involves brutal physical abusiveness and the unnatural imposition of alien substances into internal organs, orally and anally, that inevitably suppress the immune system and heighten susceptibility to disease. -- Rod Parsley
Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing? -- Horace Walpole
It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so. -- Vaclav Havel
The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints. -- Abe Fortas
In the major institutions of education, government, science, and the arts, we are witnessing the imposition of a post-Christian view of life. It now dominates in motion pictures, television, and every other form of entertainment. -- D. James Kennedy

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