Top 129 Imposition Quotes & Sayings

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.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

Design is the conscious imposition of meaningful order.

'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.

The imposition of anomalous models and lifestyles are alien to people's identity and, in the end, are irresponsible.

Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.

Frequent elections not only entail more burden on human resources, imposition of model code also impedes the development process.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

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.

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.

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.

An agreement cannot be the result of an imposition.

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.

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.

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.

Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

We must choose dialogue over confrontation, and peaceful settlement of disputes over unilateral acts of imposition.

It is difficult to imagine a greater imposition than adding genes to future generations that changes the nature of future people.

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.

Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism.

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.

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men.

What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.

Where there is love, there is no imposition.

A friend is never an imposition.

Basically, at this time, 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.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

I have never been normal about my body. It has always seemed to me a strange and foreign entity. I don't know that there was ever a time when I was not conscious of it. As far back as I can think, I was aware of my own corporeality, my physical imposition on space.

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century [America].

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

I think that both pornography and the imposition (common in some areas of the world) of a dress code on women are problematic.

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.

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.

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

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.

I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.

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?

When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

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.

Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern of the oppressor. This imposition, in turn, may be made upon the oppressed population which is allowed to remain or upon the territory alone, after removal of the population and the colonization by the oppressor's own nationals.

The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we do everything. My view is that today’s computer world is based on techie misunderstandings of human thought and human life. And the imposition of inappropriate structures throughout the computer is the imposition of inappropriate structures on the things we want to do in the human world.

Simplicity is a delicate imposition.

All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.

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.

Really, given that God does judge nations, it's amazing that abortion has run as far and foully as it has without what I would consider to be a greater imposition of judgment on this country. Who knows what the future holds?

Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.

I basically went into business for myself. But it never amounted to anything. I learned a lot about editing and dubbing by watching all the professionals do it, but I never got a job out of my imposition.

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.

If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures.

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

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.

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.

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along.

Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.

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.