Impose Quotes

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
Abbie Hoffman

Wish, Language, Reach

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.
Chuck Hagel

Found, United, Russians

Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.
Boris Yeltsin

Whole, Actually, Ideas

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
James Monroe

Character, Free, Public

And in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement: who knew that when asked, 'will government impose a new federal mandate requiring middle class Americans to buy health insurance whether they can afford it or not?' The answer would be 'Yes we can!'
Artur Davis

Health, Government, Whether

I don't believe there is such a thing as a moderate Islamist party. The challenge with Islamists is that they seek to impose what they call Sharia on everybody, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.
Frank Gaffney

Challenge, Everybody, Call

Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.
Jim Wallis

Power, Government, Down

When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.
Ward Churchill

Children, Order, Somebody

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.
John Ashcroft

Free, Sure, Needs

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.
Benjamin Tucker

Alone, Justice, Real

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.
Jonah Goldberg

Reality, Thought, Find

It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.
Luc Montagnier

Education, Time, Society

But at the same time, I think we recognize we can't impose democracy from without, particularly American-style democracy. We need to work with those elements in the region that are moving towards a reformed process and there are a number of them.
Frank Carlucci

Work, Time, Moving

France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change France will be in a strong position.
Laurent Fabius

Change, Strong, Give

International donors, our friends, should demand results; impose results. The fact of giving money is not helping if you give money to honest people and there is no structure to manage that money. It is not helping.
Michel Martelly

Money, Giving, Give

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
Alejo Carpentier

Success, Faith, Music

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.
Tom G. Palmer

Medical, Person, Another

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.
Tom G. Palmer

Equality, Cannot, Others

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
Karolina Kurkova

Business, Yourself, Fight

I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.
Ed Rendell

Time, Legal, Short

Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile.
Ed Rendell

Tax, Number, Trash

And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.
Ed Rendell

State, Create, Issue

The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn't believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people.
Ken Mehlman

Marriage, Woman, Country

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.
Scott Nearing

War, Another, Violence

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.
Milos Forman

Bad, Moment, Censorship

The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.
Peter DeFazio

Freedom, Cannot, Security

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.
Juan Cole

Government, Political, Accept

The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.
Jim Bunning

Marriage, Trying, Decisions

You can't impose a legacy.
Iain Sinclair

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, However, Remain

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