Top 807 Imposed Quotes & Sayings

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed by force that is not a violation of property rights. If you cannot do so, then you must agree that the law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.

There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.

Education is imposed ignorance.

[With R-rated movie] you're not dealing with the restrictions imposed by the FCC. They're self-imposed. In a way, that does make it harder. You actually have to think about it, as opposed to just taking for granted that you're not going to be able to do this.

I don't think we need a Washington-imposed solution.

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

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

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.

I had an economic system imposed on me.

The Israelis object to an imposed settlement I don't know what they mean by an imposed settlement. It's quite obvious, without the all out support by the United States in money and weapons and so on the Israelis couldn't do what they've been doing. So we bear a very great share of the responsibility for the continuation of this...of this state of warfare.

There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.

He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

All limitations are self-imposed.

Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.

In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia

Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love." They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

If no estate tax is imposed, capital gains taxes can be avoided indefinitely.

Look for good things about where you are, and in your state of appreciation, you lift all self-imposed limitations - and all limitations are self-imposed - and you free yourself for the receiving of wonderful things.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation, or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.

We've imposed a hiring freeze on non-essential federal workers. We've imposed a temporary moratorium on new federal regulations.

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe - a great office that must neither be humbled by making it the instrument of any one religious group nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a President whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the Nation or imposed by the Nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

We resist mindlessness of any kind. Again, drugs, like television, are fine for other people. The more enslaved they are, the easier it is for us, as long as they stay out of our way. Whether it’s through religiously-imposed ignorance, spectator sports, crack, pot, coke, heroin—or the consumer insecurities imposed by the almighty Tube—it’s fine with us as long as it keeps sheep more docile and easily contained. That doesn’t mean we have to subject ourselves to it. Military generals don’t step out on the missile range and volunteer as targets for the latest prototype weapons

I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.

Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed.

Most of the pressure, if not all, is self-imposed.

Most of the time, our limitations are self-imposed.

One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

Solutions can't be imposed. That just fosters resentment.

We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.

Russia is an important power upon which the U.S.A. imposed a Cold War.

Socialism appeals to me. It's like imposed Christianity. You've got to share.

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

How unnatural the imposed view, imposed by a puritanical ethos, that passionate love belongs only to the young, that people are dead from the neck down by the time they are forty, and that any deep feeling, any passion after that age, is either ludicrous or revolting!

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.

This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!

My belief is that most of the limitations people have or face are self-imposed.

With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish

Make no conditions and none will be imposed.

The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.

Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social laws, not authoritatively imposed but inherent in things, in relations, in situations, the natural development of which is expressed by those laws. We say YES if they are political and juridical laws, imposed upon men by men.

Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.

Religion wasn't imposed on me.

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.