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It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.
— Hassan Al-Banna
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
— Abraham Lincoln
the world: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. .
— John Gardner
War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.
— Scott Nearing
The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.
— Mario Cuomo
I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is well known that I am pro-life ... but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people.
— Stockwell Day
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.
— William Zinsser
When we impose unrealistic expectations on ourselves, it's natural to force them on everyone else.
— Jen Hatmaker
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
— Julius Caesar
No one had to impose my enemies on me. I selected them myself. I didn't avoid them: I pointed them out, marked them, attacked them.
— Jacobo Timerman
It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked.
— Gore Verbinski
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
— Guy De Maupassant
People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.
— Milos Forman
The delegates to the peace conference after World War I tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world.
— Margaret MacMillan
he only limits are those you impose upon yourself. You are the one who gives yourself permission to be you. Not anyone else.
— Russell Eric Dobda
Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.
— Douglas Crockford
The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.
— Norman Angell
Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.
— Louis L'Amour
It is very tempting, when you talk about the events of the past, to impose clarity and order upon what had neither one nor the other.
— Rene Daumal
Suppose we were planning to impose a dictatorial regime upon the American people - the following preparations would be essential:
— Edward Abbey
From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.
— Eduardo Galeano
I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.
— David Douglas Duncan
Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile.
— Ed Rendell
The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.
— Chuck Hagel
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
— Rachel Cusk
We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.
— Gordon Bethune
I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great mistake.
— Ed Crane
You never know what you might discover by thinking outside the box that culture, conformity, and critics have tried to impose.
— T.D. Jakes
It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts,
— Louis Althusser
Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
— Charles De Gaulle
Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.
— Ayn Rand
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
A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.
— Jean Vanier
Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life - but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.
— Sarah Churchwell
It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.
— Robert Morrison MacIver
Oppression often turns out to be the expectations we impose on ourselves and the expectations we interpret those around us as having.
— Jo Nesbo
I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.
— Ben Carson
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
— Benjamin Whichcote
Stay naked as much as possible, but do not impose your orgiastic will on others. Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.
— Hunter S. Thompson
David Foster Wallace: I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me.
— David Lipsky
The most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.
— Ruth Simmons
An Islamist is a Muslim who seeks to impose Shariah on others, including many 'cultural' or secular Muslims.
— Dennis Prager
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
— Cal Thomas
When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is us who owe them thanks.
— Henri Poincare
A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.
— Anthony Hopkins
Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
— Maajid Nawaz
Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
— Anne Carson
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
— George Orwell
The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.
— Moby
We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.
— Julianne Moore
Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony
— John Perry Barlow
Age is a limit we impose on ourselves.
— H. B. Warner
Instead of an end to austerity, Labour has made clear that it wants to impose more austerity cuts.
— Nicola Sturgeon
Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.
— H.L. Mencken
I do not want to impose additional taxes on the employers at a time when our economy is very fragile and we want to encourage them to hire.
— Susan Collins
Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?
— William Stafford
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.
— Richard Stallman
I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.
— Nita Ambani
What she might have told him was that taxidermy, like sex, is a very personal subject; the manner in which we impose it on others should be discreet.
— John Irving
You need to have the means to impose yourself
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
(Not) even the US can impose peace: it has to be genuinely accepted by both parties involved.
— Margaret Thatcher
Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site.
— Wolf Kahn
Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.
— Ulysses S. Grant
A Brotherhood with the grim knowledge of what is better for other people & the iron determination to better them whether they like it or not.
— Leonora Carrington
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter ...
— Henri Matisse
I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.
— Lesli Linka Glatter
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
— Noam Chomsky
To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
— James Monroe
.....a miracle has the right to impose conditions.
— Jorge Luis Borges
One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.
— Suzanne Curchod
You shouldn't act as a spokesperson for someone who's trying to impose his will on you.
— Elie Wiesel
Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.
— Harold S. Kushner
When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.
— Marshall McLuhan
The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.
— William Rainey Harper
God loves us and believes in us and has done and will do anything he can to help us, but he will not impose on our free agency.
— Marion D. Hanks
One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.
— Phyllis Schlafly
A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.
— Curt Sachs
To identify Woman with Altruism is to guarantee man absolute rights to her devotion; it is to impose on women a categorical must-be.
— Simone De Beauvoir
The punishment imposed on us for claiming true self can never be worse than the punishment we impose on ourselves by failing to make that claim.
— Parker J. Palmer
There are no limits, except for those we impose upon ourselves.
— Dr. Walter Bishop
We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world ...
— Jose Saramago
The purpose of those who argue for cultural diversity is to impose ideological uniformity.
— Theodore Dalrymple
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,
When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.
— Marion Marechal-Le Pen
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
— T. S. Eliot
I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.
— Nelson Rockefeller