Top 100 Impose Quotes
#1. Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile.
Ed Rendell
#2. I tell you,Huda,with the with the service-free arnona they impose on us and the many fines and penalties we East Jerusalem Arabs pay them, we've become the casino where they always win...or even better, the cash cow that they continue to milk.
Suad Amiry
#3. 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
#4. I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she - is an inquisitive species. You can't control science. You have to control the effects of science.
Robert Winston
#5. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.
Henry David Thoreau
#6. To rule out the possibility of belief in another's reality is to encapsulate that reality and, thus, to impose implicity the hegemony of one's own view of the world.
Katherine P. Ewing
#7. Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions.
Laozi
#8. We are not a land of Islam. In our country, we don't wear djellaba clothing, we don't wear a veil, and we don't impose cathedral-sized mosques.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen
#9. I'm a traditional Jew with an orthodox background, and it informs much of my approach to science. Of course I think it's very important that if you have those sorts of backgrounds you don't impose them on other people as a clinician, of course.
Robert Winston
#10. Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.
Louis L'Amour
#11. Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.
Lori Lipman Brown
#13. Your only limitations are those that you impose upon yourself
Gary Hopkins
#14. I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time.
Robert M. Gates
#15. The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices - paid by others.
Thomas Sowell
#16. 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
#17. A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
Eric Hoffer
#18. If people realized the great pains I go through to impose such delicious torment on him, they would be more punctilious.
Andrew Cormier
#19. What is called "planning" in political rhetoric is the government's suppression of other people's plans by superimposing on them a collective plan, created by third parties, armed with the power of government and exempted from paying the costs that these collective plans impose on others.
Thomas Sowell
#20. What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.
Thomas Sowell
#21. You can have your beliefs and have your faith, but don't try to impose it one me, and vice versa.
Rib Hillis
#22. 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
#23. It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#24. 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
#25. Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery is still taking place in our time.
Rebecca Solnit
#26. Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.
Harold S. Kushner
#27. Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.
Thomas Sowell
#28. It is very tempting, when you talk about the events of the past, to impose clarity and order upon what had neither one nor the other.
Rene Daumal
#29. War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
Julius Caesar
#30. The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.
Norman Angell
#31. As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new experience, they become afraid, biased, and bigoted. It's really simply to do with refusing new experience.
Jeanette Winterson
#32. Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of time has been occupied?
James Hamilton-Paterson
#33. The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.
Immanuel Kant
#34. No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country.
Paul Wolfowitz
#35. Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right to reproductive care. Bosses belong in the boardroom, not in the bedroom.
Dina Titus
#36. We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion.
John Ashcroft
#37. For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#38. Just like we respect your legal system, you [europeans] should respect our legal system. You cannot impose your values on us, otherwise the world will become the law of the jungle. Every society decides what its laws are, and it's the people who make decisions with regards to these laws.
Adel Al-Jubeir
#39. Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.
Victor Papanek
#40. When we impose unrealistic expectations on ourselves, it's natural to force them on everyone else.
Jen Hatmaker
#41. The U.S. invaded Vietnam because many in our government - Lyndon Johnson's best and brightest - imagined it could impose a government on that country that would provide a buffer against China and stop the supposedly rolling dominos of Communism.
Jay Parini
#42. To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing ...
Frances Wright
#43. You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them.
Ramana Maharshi
#44. No one had to impose my enemies on me. I selected them myself. I didn't avoid them: I pointed them out, marked them, attacked them.
Jacobo Timerman
#45. I'm very critical of political parties. I don't think they're needed in the world as it is now. They impede the development of individuals, they encroach on creativity and they impose absurd structures of discipline.
Manuela Carmena
#46. One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.
Albert Einstein
#47. The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature
: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. We are not seeking to impose a recall.
Joel Klein
#49. The punishment imposed on us for claiming true self can never be worse than the punishment we impose on ourselves by failing to make that claim.
Parker J. Palmer
#50. So at last the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement and took over Greenpeace so that my friends who founded it left within a year because they'd captured it. Now the apotheosis is at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world.
Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton Of Brenchley
#51. There are chemical and other explanations for addictions, but speaking from my own observations (and I am a shamanic type), there is always some sort of disembodied spirit causing some of the addiction, riding your energy field, trying to impose their needs and addictions onto you.
Robert Moss
#52. Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
Noam Chomsky
#53. A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.
Anthony Hopkins
#54. 'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.
Thomas Sowell
#55. The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.
William Julius Wilson
#56. The UN can go as far as the U.S. will allow, and no further. And it's bound by conditions that the powerful states, which means mostly the U.S., impose.
Noam Chomsky
#57. When we are no longer motivated by fear, we understand that every moment is perfect in its own way. We no longer dread what we can't control; we learn to respect the wisdom of Spirit rather than impose our will on situations. This is the path of genuine power.
Alberto Villoldo
#58. If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.
Meg Greenfield
#59. Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?
William Stafford
#60. The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them.
George W. Bush
#61. The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.
Chuck Hagel
#62. 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
#63. I think to adequately manage a crisis, you have to see it. Because there's only so much somebody else can tell you about it, and they impose their own distortions on the description. You need to see it yourself.
Rudy Giuliani
#64. The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way they can make more money.
Jonathan Meades
#65. States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
Noam Chomsky
#66. The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.
Robin Marantz Henig
#67. The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.
Moby
#68. writers to explicitly posit that the Joker embraces the chaos of insanity and death, while the Batman instead channels his pain into an endless crusade to impose order.
Glen Weldon
#69. Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.
Paul Collier
#70. Police are people too, and deserve the same respect due all living things. The point is not that they deserve to suffer or that we should bring them to justice. The point is that, in purely pragmatic terms, they must not be allowed to brutalize people or impose an unjust social order.
Anonymous
#71. I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning, and every parent responds to a particular child, not some generalized infant or youngster.
Siri Hustvedt
#72. People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention.
Sharon Stone
#73. Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.
Boris Yeltsin
#74. 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
#75. Oh, diplomacy," said M.D., in his element, "it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.
David Mitchell
#76. Freedom is a gift to use your will and perception to impose a moral structure on yourself. Without the freedom to choose our path, we are morally crippled.
Omar Saif Ghobash
#77. The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.
Samuel Johnson
#78. I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great mistake.
Ed Crane
#79. Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it.
Jerome A. Miller
#80. It's always great when you just pound the rock, impose your will, and that is going to break the spirit of the defense if you can keep running it and they can't stop you.
Logan Mankins
#81. With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.
David Suzuki
#82. As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.
Jonny Greenwood
#83. When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is us who owe them thanks.
Henri Poincare
#84. monopsony" rather than monopoly), in which case the owner of capital can impose a rate of return greater than the marginal productivity of his capital.
Thomas Piketty
#85. To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.
Nelson Mandela
#86. A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
Pope Benedict XVI
#87. Moderate to conservative Democrat. But I'm not going to impose my views on the editorial page.
Katharine Weymouth
#88. Resentment is always resentment against oneself. The
rebel, on the contrary, from his very first step, refuses to allow anyone to touch what he is. He is fighting
for the integrity of one part of his being. He does not try, primarily, to conquer, but simply to impose.
Albert Camus
#89. The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.
William James
#90. The purpose of those who argue for cultural diversity is to impose ideological uniformity.
Theodore Dalrymple
#91. An Islamist is a Muslim who seeks to impose Shariah on others, including many 'cultural' or secular Muslims.
Dennis Prager
#92. What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
Thomas Sowell
#93. If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
Samuel J. Palmisano
#95. Followers do not like themselves, of course; that's why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is why they impose such colorful embarrassments upon them.
Timothy Leary
#96. I don't know if math is real in the sense that it's woven into the fabric of the cosmos, or if it's something that we invent and impose upon it. I don't know.
Rivka Galchen
#97. The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by the reality and create a vision out of that.
Ramin Bahrani
#98. If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage ... we would look at considering perhaps duties that would offset that cost.
Steven Chu
#99. What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery.
Epictetus
#100. Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.
Anatole France
