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Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance. — D.T. Suzuki

And there's no state of slavery more disgraceful than one which is self-imposed. — Seneca.

Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude. — Max Elliott Slade

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government. — Esther Dyson

I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us. — Leos Carax

Erich, they differ from us only in the limitations imposed upon them by stone, as opposed to iron and steel. — Torsten Krol

Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves. — George Soros

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states. — Vladimir Putin

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest. — Dean Acheson

Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down ... or prisons self-imposed. — Chriscinthia Blount

The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness. — Phyllis Schlafly

My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them. — Ahmet Zappa

The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention. — Frances G. Wickes

We should always be realistic about our needs, steer clear of this over indulgence and self imposed poverty nonsense. — Auliq Ice

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society. — Pope Francis

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all. — Edward Sapir

Life was imposed on her from outside — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The death penalty can be imposed fairly only after carefully considering all the reasons why death might not be the appropriate sentence — Bryan Stevenson

Education is imposed ignorance. — Noam Chomsky

From such experiments Christians have learned that the gospel grows best from the bottom up rather than being imposed from the top down. — Philip Yancey

All limitations are self-imposed. — Ernest Holmes

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within. — Dawson Trotman

Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it. — Paul De Rapin

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson. — Ernest Holmes

I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals. — Stella Young

Change came from below, as it usually does, rather than being imposed from above. — Philip Yancey

By going with him, I would have simply imposed myself on him; I would have been a distraction. I helped him follow his heart and his greater good. — Kavita Kane

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement. — Andrew J. Bernstein

Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal. — Russell L. Ackoff

Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own. — Margaret Mitchell

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have always had deep concerns about anyone's philosophy being imposed on the entire community. — Kelvin Ogilvie

For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped. — Greg Egan

All you need is a little space and a little time - a place to work, and some time to do it; a little self-imposed solitude and temporary captivity. — Austin Kleon

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed. — Paul Muldoon

How do we stand with others when the things that separate us are imposed at birth, when the separation haunts us and follows us day and night? — Don DeLillo

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war. — Glenn T. Seaborg

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They — George Orwell

The English imposed their language on Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and they weren't terribly nice about it. — Howard Tomb

Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect. — Barack Obama

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.' — Plato

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity? — Henry David Thoreau

If you're struggling to "think outside the box" remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias? — Ryan Lilly

Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up. — Philip Yancey

In contrast with the law, which imposed giving as a divine requirement, Christian giving is voluntary, and a test of sincerity and love. — C.I. Scofield

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon. — Augustus William Hare

Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation. — Victoria Moran

It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different. — Nancy Horan

The economy grows when families can spend money on personal priorities rather than priorities imposed by the federal government. — Mike Crapo

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed. — Denis Waitley

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

Like all people with nothing to do, he was very disciplined and stuck religiously to the schedule he had imposed on himself. He — Ajith Pillai

Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful. — Li Keqiang

A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase and a phase of decomposition. — Claes Oldenburg

I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth. — Ambrose Bierce

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? — Anthony Burgess

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi

I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around — Coco Chanel

To be driven by our appetites alone is slavery, while to obey a law that we have imposed on ourselves is freedom. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There's a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss. — Ann Aguirre

The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia. — Angela Davis

Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture. — James Patterson

Kazuko was worried about him, calling him a hikikomori, a self-imposed shut-in. — Shuichi Yoshida

He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade. — Saint Augustine

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. — Arthur Koestler

Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love. — Michael Xavier

If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance. — Sterling W. Sill

In 1983, the government imposed a ban on the import of gensets. I was out of business overnight. I was in trouble. — Sunil Mittal

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead. — Jeanette Winterson

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school. — Alfie Allen

The sky wasn't the limit - the only limits were the ones we imposed upon ourselves. — Nicole Williams

There is no reality
only our own order imposed on everything. — Brian Herbert

Segregation, he concluded, is neither sought nor imposed by healthy ... human beings. — Jonathan Kozol

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit. — Philip Roth

I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous. — Yves Saint-Laurent

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. — Milton Friedman

I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids. — Hume Cronyn

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed. — Anthony Daniels

Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines. — Adrienne Shelly

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language. — Paul Muldoon

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed? — Honore De Balzac

Cannot be imposed, legislated, or decreed. They can only be cultivated, and — Jon Kabat-Zinn

When your livelihood depends on self-imposed productivity, you either get good at it or you find yourself in mounds of debt. — Nacie Carson

Life is proposed to me
My name is passed on to me
My body is imposed on me — Edouard Leve

She paused before him with a smile which seemed at once designed to admit him to her familiarity, and to remind him of the restrictions it imposed. — Edith Wharton

Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy. — Jack Weatherford

No slavery is more disgraceful," he quipped, "than one which is self-imposed. — Ryan Holiday

Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self-imposed burden, but is not always rightly imposed. — R.A. Salvatore

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

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful. — Noam Chomsky

The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me. — Kristoffer Polaha

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society. — George Sand

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

Limits are self-imposed. But there are no limits to human energy nor the goals you can achieve. — Mike Shanahan

Most of us are great with change, as long it was our idea. But change imposed from the outside can send some people into a tailspin. - Myrna Landers — Louise Penny

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. — Lord Chesterfield