Imposition – Quotes

Teachers should be very

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils’ taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition. Ernest Shackleton

Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence of imposition. Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. Edwin Percy Whipple

No nation ever yet

No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses. Edward Livingston

Taxing is an easy

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them? Edmund Burke

A friend is never

A friend is never an imposition. Frank Sinatra

After all, from the

After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood’s inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine they call shariah. Frank Gaffney

Simplicity is a delicate

Simplicity is a delicate imposition. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inner freedom demands the

Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity. Fausto Cercignani

Thanks in large measure

Thanks in large measure to the ACLU, the belief that there is a wall of separation between faith and state, not just church and state, is endemic. The exercise of religious faith in the public square is not prohibited; only the federal imposition of a particular faith. Hardly anyone any longer knows the difference. F. … Read more

Those without the gate

Those without the gate frequently question the wisdom and right of the occultist to guard his knowledge by the imposition of oaths of secrecy. We are so accustomed to see the scientist give his beneficent discoveries freely to all mankind that we feel that humanity is wronged and defrauded if any knowledge be kept secret … Read more