#imposed

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian. ↗

— Robert Towne

#attracted #been #being #culture #ethnic

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed. ↗

— Robert Welch

#fortune #good #good fortune #imposed #indeed

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it. ↗

— Will Oldham

#had #i #imposed #meaning #pirate

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action. ↗

— Rand Paul

#action #american #american revolution #call #chief

The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#imposed #kids #recycling

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#betray #by the people #chief #imposed #internal

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar. ↗

— Frederick M. Vinson

#constitutional #difference #imposed #individuals #intellectual

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#brought #conquerors #control #framework #hand

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers. ↗

— Michael Newdow

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