#imposition

Public life is debased because it's only the nice people who are worried about imposing their views on others. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#nice-people #public-life #views #life

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#beset #citizen #compliment #evidence #good

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom. ↗

— Golda Meir

#freedom #imposition #reign

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

— Antonis Samaras

#austerity #become #due #goes #imposition

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. ↗

— Claudio Hummes

#church #convictions #dialogue #dominate #however

In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#god #nature

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

— Bill Condon

#belong #does #imposition #morality #onto

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. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#because #been #communal #cooperative #effective

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. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#any #art #basically #dictator #i

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. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#been #brotherhood #call #committed #doctrine