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«The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.»
«There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three centuries ago, and they quickly imposed it on the Africans-who were not allowed to learn to read and write-and on the Native Americans, who were simply not allowed.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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Africans, allowed, American values, ancient, centuries, imposed, native, Native American, not allowed, speakers, traditional
«Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
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accepts, Body Parts, bond, brutally, environment, escapes, governed, Great Society, imposed, material, material body, physical body, privilege, social, subject, subject to, superior, superiority, to that, transcended, transcends, yoke, yoked, yokes
«The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individua»
Author: Mikhail Bakunin
(Philosopher)
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as such, collective, divine law, externally, extrinsic, imposed, natural laws, obeys, recognized, solely
«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»
Author: Van Wyck Brooks
(Biographer, Critic, Historian)
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imposed, restraints, stopping, tendency, The Knowledge, throw off
«Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.»
«It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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ages, balls, ball game, Ball games, beat, beating, civilized, considerable, games, imposed, kick, kicking, noteworthy, organize, played, preventing, wives
«The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
imposed, patterns, revulsion
«Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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awakened, imposed, mightier, sensibilities, tremble
«Service without ideal of self . . . trains you to transcend all the artificial distinctions imposed by history and geography, and to realize that the human community is one and indivisible.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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artificial, community, community service, distinctions, geography, history, ideal, imposed, indivisible, In Training, service, trains, transcend, transcended