“ Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafe. ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
- 510
“ We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure. ”
- Shirin Ebadi- Copy
- 1.3K
“ True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will. ”
- John Haggai- Copy
- 285
“ Russia is our strategic partner and we believe that in the course of this visit we will lay the groundwork for a new stage in the development of Ukrainian-Russian relations. ”
- Viktor Yushchenko- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
- 728
“ Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 184
“ Homogeneity makes for healthy milk but anemic friendships. We need relationships that cross culturally imposed lines to enlarge our hearts and expand our vistas. ”
- Dan Schmidt- Copy
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“ One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos. ”
- John Nash- Copy
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“ Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country. ”
- Emile Lahud- Copy
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“ He sees death in convicted thieves, the burglars, the muggers, the con men, the pimps, a death imposed by law, the gradual death of confinement behind bars. ”
- Evan Hunter- Copy
- 2.3K
“ No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 2.4K
“ A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance. ”
- Henry Kissinger- Copy
- 2.9K
“ A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. ”
- Gerald G. Jampolsky- Copy
- 1.7K
“ 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- Copy
- 682
“ If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you. ”
- T.S. Eliot- Copy
- 402
“ Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 3.2K
“ ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgement of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 774
“ Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness. ”
- George Holbrook Jackson- Copy
- 130
“ Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. ”
- Lord Chesterfield- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. ”
- Peter Drucker- Copy
- 1K
“ Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. ”
- Vincent van Gogh- Copy
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