(142 quotes found)
“Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.”
David Bohm
“Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.”
Confucius
“Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous”
Yehudi Menuhin
“Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“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
“What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide”
William Shakespeare
“There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.”
Marcel Proust
“The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.”
Marshall McLuhan
“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
