#imposed

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it. ↗

— David Icke

#behavior #believe #collective #developed #force

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian. ↗

— Robert Towne

#attracted #been #being #culture #ethnic

For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige. ↗

— Robert Welch

#american people #beautiful #carrying #compassionate #courageous

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it. ↗

— Will Oldham

#had #i #imposed #meaning #pirate

What he'd do, he'd never go out to the length of the chain. He'd never even get out to where the chain got tight. Even if the mailman pulled up, or a salesman. Out of dignity, this dog pretended like he chose this one area to stay in that just happened to be inside the length of the chain. Nothing outside of that area right there interested him. He just had zero interest. So he never noticed the chain. He didn't hate it. The chain. He just up and made it not relevant. maybe he wasn't pretending--maybe he really up and chose that little circle for his own world. He had a power to him. All of his life on that chain. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#imposed-boundaries #limitations #life

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state. ↗

— Craig Benson

#business #businesses #calculated #dependent #generated

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar. ↗

— Frederick M. Vinson

#constitutional #difference #imposed #individuals #intellectual

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#chance #disaster #each #layers #left

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#because #before #bow #i #imposed

Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#development #haitians #help #imposed #instead