#impose

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. ↗

— Confucius

#impose #others #you #yourself

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

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America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. ↗

— Terri Windling

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We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#because #both #democracy #did #go

Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution. ↗

— Bobby Ray Inman

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There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment. ↗

— James Buchan

#anyway #away #cannot #enlightenment #eu

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#elites #europe #european #european union #impose