“ Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. ”
- Joseph Stalin- Copy
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“ Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. ”
- Milton Friedman- Copy
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“ If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. ”
- Maria Montessori- Copy
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“ If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be thus placed in order, that it is a good and pleasing arrangement in the room, this ordered and tranquil adjustment of theirs — then their remaining in their places, quiet and silent, is the result of a species of lesson, not an imposition… ”
- Maria Montessori- Copy
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“ It might sound a paradoxical thing to say — for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time — but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence… ”
- Midge Decter- Copy
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“ The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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