At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.
You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.
We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.
It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.
'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.
He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.
A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine. . . each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability and causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being. Martial art should not be passed out indiscriminately.
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.
. . . what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface: I read on, I skip, I look up, I dip in again. Which has nothing to do with the deep laceration the text of bliss inflicts upon language itself, and not upon the simple temporality of its reading.
I was shaken to the extent that people who criticized me used to say that I was Protestant more than a Catholic because I like to impose constraints on myself, but I don't like them to be imposed from the outside.
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.
People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.
Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.
In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.
A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.
Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do reveal who they are, and be involved in their lives, and keep asking yourself, Now what happens? The development of relationship creates plot.
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
I’d rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time.
If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage. . . we would look at considering perhaps duties that would offset that cost.