Imposition Quotes

“What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night,
So stumblest on my counsel?

*Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“No future triumph or metamorphosis can justify the pitiful blighting of a human being against his will.”
― Peter Wessel Zapffe

“In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
― Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

“We must go down to the very fundamentals of life. For any merely superficial ordering of life that leaves its deepest needs unsatisfied is as ineffectual as if no attempt at order had ever been made.”
― I-Ching

“Never wanted it to be an imposition,
I am alone & will find my way alone.”
― Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel

“Public life is debased because it's only the nice people who are worried about imposing their views on others.”
― Alain de Botton

“On all of us was forced life; and, on almost all of us, the desire to remain alive.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If I could I would!" is the maxim of tyrants.”
― Lamine Pearlheart, The Sunrise Scrolls: To Life from the Shadows II

“Gardeners impose human values on disorderly nature, knowing full well that nature must win in the end. Gardening is gentle gallantry. - Rosemary Butler”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

“However, we must not look on this domination of the Virtual as something inevitable. Above all, we must not take the Virtual for a 'reality' (definitely going too far!) and apply the categories of the real and the rational to it.(...)”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact

“If you engage with someone as if they are faulty, or somehow inferior, you are attempting to direct or assign them to the low-range spectrum. Of course, none is obliged to accept these implications, but certain constructs make it near impossible to reject them. In the Artificium, parents regularly do this with their children. Already the imposing of authority, usually explained as a necessary teaching of discipline and manners, is a subterfuge method of control. The key aspect here is the imposition of authority. In lieu of authority, there should be respect, and respect is always earned. However, in taking the authority route, parents insist on obedience. Thus, they help instill the parameters for obedience later on. Obedient children become obedient adults. Obedient of what? It does not matter... Whatever the authority figure says is right. In this manner, parents can almost guarantee a smooth transition towards servitude or serfdom of their children later in life. In other words, they help raise slaves ― to authority.”
― Sabina Nore, Weird Genius: The Story of Your Ankh