#imposed

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#imposed #inflation #legislation #taxation #without

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#destroy #divine #does #faith #imposed

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#based #few #ignorance #imposed #knowledge

I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids. ↗

— Hume Cronyn

#i #imposed #kids #sure #up

I am the daughter of a Chicana and anglo. I think most days I am an embarrassment to both groups. I sometimes hate the white in me so viciously that I long to forget the commitment my skin has imposed upon my life. ↗

— Cherrie Moraga

#anglo #both #commitment #daughter #days

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#me #quartets #seems #structure #too

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#because #been #collective #consists #divine

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. ↗

— John Berger

#before #century #imposed #natural #other

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now? ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#champagne #competition #deserve #entitlement #i

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#government #i #imposed #individuals #much