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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. William Shakespeare

Lost Reputation Merit Most Without Got Idle Imposition False Oft Deserving

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. Walter Lippmann

Good Nature Intelligence Loan Will Citizen Sense Evidence Good Nature Compliment See Soon Perhaps Partisan Insult Opinion Private Private Citizen His Imposition Public Public Opinion Appeals

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it. Josiah Warren

Corruption Natural Money Value Cruelty Medium Finally Fraud Degrees Tendency Crushing Powerless Masses Render Built Imposition Sweep Natural Tendency Use Lessen Iniquity Away Consequently

Private philanthropy is the direct expression of the great Christian principle of the brotherhood of man and the Golden Rule. Private philanthropy indeed is the only valid expression of these ethical principles; compulsory charity through 'social legislation' is the exact contrary: it is the evil imposition of force by one group on another. Murray Rothbard

Great Man Charity Evil Group Christian Philanthropy Valid Rule Indeed Exact Brotherhood Direct Only Compulsory Through Force Principle Principles Another Private Imposition Contrary Legislation The Golden Rule Golden Golden Rule Social Ethical Expression

Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions. Alexander Dubcek

Ownership Restrictions Had Mainly Because Been Imposition Effective Any Legitimate Forms Communal Used Many Cooperative Extent

I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love. Concha Buika

Love Emotional Over Name Sing Another Imposition Dictatorships Person Against

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom. Golda Meir

Fashion Freedom Imposition Reign

There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics. Gordon B. Hinckley

Better Achieve Pressure Statistical Statistics Lies Tendency Performance Impose Imposition Improved Behind Which Ask Us

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience. Joan Didion

Experience Shifting Live Our Entirely Writers Freeze Ideas Learned Narrative Line Imposition Which Disparate Actual Actual Experience Images

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. Maria Montessori

It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the case. In 1774, Benjamin Franklin wrote an open letter to the prime minister of Great Britain, Lord North - a satirical call for the imposition of martial law in the colonies. Roxane Gay

Great Age Law Internet Assume Great Britain Symptom Benjamin Franklin Franklin Minister Would Would-Be Easy Martial Case Colonies Open Prime Prime Minister Wrote Call Lord Imposition North Satirical Letter Internet Age Britain

The very idea that you could have separation between mosque and state from Islam's perspective is the imposition on them of Christian practice. Islam doesn't really have a place for state. They are a universalistic faith like Christianity, but they think there is no country that bounds Islam. Stanley Hauerwas

Faith You Perspective Country Practice Islam Separation Christian Think Christianity State No Country Could Idea Between Bounds Like Mosque Imposition Very Place Them Really

What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views. Richard Dawkins

Imposition Persuasion Views

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