#imposing

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. ↗

— Kurt Huber

#breaks #criticism #each #every #freedom

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk. ↗

— Lance Morrow

#became #both #church #imposing #itself

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures. ↗

— Frank Wedekind

#good #imposing #looks #only #suits

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#find #getting #i #imposing #judgements

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#art #enjoyment #experience #imposing #our

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#empty #germany #good #huge #i

We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon. ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#camps #groups #imposing #lebanon #operating

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#great #imposing #rather #responsibility #too

Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#between #come #divide #fairness #him

Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the skateboard park', or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man'. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#character #described #fat #freeing #get