Top 860 Impose Quotes & Sayings

That which you do not wish for yourself, do not impose on others.

You can't impose a legacy.

Who's married and who isn't married. I have my standards but I shouldn't have to impose my standards on others. Other people have their standards and they have no right to impose their marriage standards on me.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The Communist model of society was a kind of imposed utopia for which the Russian people in particular paid a great price. Still, sometimes we see that attempts are being made to impose some other kind of model on the entire world - maybe a Westernized or Americanized model... This is not the way to go because this can only create conflict.

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me.

To be a sannyasin means you will be allowing freedom to the children, you will not impose anything on them, you will not impose your ideas; you will NOT like them to become imitators. Sannyas is just symbolic of a great freedom!

It's a fist fight - the idea is to go out there and impose my will.

The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

People who believe in something for which there is not a shred of evidence act on that belief and, above all, impose their beliefs on others, they make me cross, and they make me especially cross when they impose their beliefs on defenceless children.

I'm not going to impose my vision on the people of Puerto Rico.

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: '- The attempt to impose upon a man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my swordpen-

The U.S. efforts to impose its policies on others are expanding as a threat to all.

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others.

Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.

One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.

I allow myself to honor the man who fought in moments when he had no strength to impose himself, until he managed to impose himself. [Joseph] Ratzinger. Cardinal Ratzinger deserves applause.

[Professional politicians] don't mind if price controls cause shortages of health care. In fact, they welcome the prospect, because then they can impose rationing; they can impose priorities, and tell everyone how much of what kind of medical care they can have. And besides, ... there's that deeply satisfying rush of power.

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

It's impossible to impose peace, only to create it.

So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles.

So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware (or conscious) of their true (or real) mission, would want to get on (or agree) to abolish every politics aiming at ("visant à", Fr.) expansion or hegemony; system that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them (or force or compel, "leur impose", Fr.) formidable armies and crushing war budgets.

You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.

If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.

We are not seeking to impose a recall.

The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.

Age is a limit we impose on ourselves.

He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.

Only when you don't impose things on it do you get real political theatre.

Pressure is not imposed on me by the club, I impose it on myself.

The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself.

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.

The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.

I would never impose my own personal convictions upon the law.

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.

No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary democracy there any more than the insurgents can impose a theocracy.

What you need to do is protect the structures and dynamics that are helping the people choose. The only thing that we can do is to respect the will of the people when it comes to majority processes. It is not for us to impose a model, it is not for us to impose answers to some critical questions.

I have to impose my belief to share with a person.

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.

With the globalization, it's difficult for governments to impose decisions on private companies.

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.

If you don't want to do something,don't impose on others

What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.

What you don't want is to repeat a formula over and over or impose a formula to a movie that...when you impose yourself and you impose a formula and you're not open to explore and to find what is right for the movie, I think you're doing a disservice to the story and what you're trying to express.

The world is not religious because religion is imposed upon us. The parents are in a hurry to impose; the church, the state, the country - everybody is in a hurry to impose a certain religion on the child. How foolish! How stupid! Religion needs maturity, great understanding, before one can choose.

Don't impose yourself until you really know the work throroughly.

As a Catholic, you can have two views on capital punishment. You can think, let Caesar do what Caesar needs to do, and the law says you can impose capital punishment, so you impose it. You can [also] be a Catholic who says we can't kill, we can't kill babies and we can't kill adults. If you let a decision be driven by your personal views, then you are not doing what a judge needs to do, which is enforce the laws of the society that you are in. But you can control your own behavior, and that is the choice that the church and God gives us - what kind of people are we going to be.

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.