Imposition Quotes

What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.

You cannot impose democracy by force of arms.

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

Religion has certainly been shoved down my throat.

It is a monstrous imposition to be asked to put up with these treaties of a century and a quarter ago, in the making of which the people had no voice or say…

The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others

Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.

Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.

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.

I am still a Democrat. The main reason is because I don't like the Republican stance on some social values. Not that I disagree with all of them. I just don't think they have a right to impose it upon other people. I've been public about that.

There is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us.

So, rather than trying to humbly mix with the rest of the world, we are forcing ourselves upon it. We seem to create conflicts with everyone.

I don't want to preach, and I don't want to tell people what to do.

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.

That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.

The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.

I'm not trying to shove anything down anybody's throat.

If you are strong, and if you have a strong logic, you can convince people by your ideas. Torture means your logic is very weak, so you need power to impose on others.

The last thing I want to do is force tries to happen.

All this strategy is, in truth, an attempt to impose individual will upon a recalcitrant world …. Strategy is often simply a charade—erzatz order imposed on a stubbornly disordered world.

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