I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.
Stay naked as much as possible, but do not impose your orgiastic will on others. Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.
Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.
Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.
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.
We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force.
I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama.
I believe that the federal government has significant constitutional powers, but I don't think it's effective to impose pipelines on communities.
I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.
We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world.
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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.
In the U.S., highly selective renditions of its history have served in practice to impose blinkers on some of its citizens and catered to vested interests.
To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.
It is past time for Congress to get serious about our spending crisis and impose fiscal restraint.
And, of course, liberals see no problem with using the government to impose their cultural beliefs on others; they just won't admit that's what they're doing.
At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.
Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.
It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)
A good novel editor is invisible.
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.
Humility means one does not impose his conceptions upon others and he is fully dependent on the mercy of the Lord.
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.
Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.
If we were to impose greater sanctions on economic sectors, I think we could have a significant impact on Putin.
The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.
The arrogance of secular Jews regarding the ultra-Orthodox community and their attempt to impose on it a different lifestyle is inappropriate.
Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.
Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.
Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.
When we work with nature instead of trying to impose our will, the solution is often found within the problem.
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.
When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.
I will sacrifice my comfort, my convenience, my economic position in order to stand in protest, but not impose that on everyone else.
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.
Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...
If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.
A team is strong because they have players who have different characteristics, but they are all important so sometimes the needs of the game impose themselves.
I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries.
As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.
The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them.
A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.
But I don't want to be compared to anyone like to impose my own style of play and do the best for myself and for the club here.
However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.
To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.
Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.
Angela Merkel wants to impose her policies on others. This will lead to an explosion of the European Union.
Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.
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.
When people have supernatural beliefs I think they should be respected but there is no reason why they need to impose them on others.
Clearly finals are one-off games and they always depend on starting well in order to impose yourself on the game.
History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.
Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony
It is well known that I am pro-life... but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people.
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.
Whenever I am called upon to play, I always try to give my best and make sure that I can impose myself on the game.
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