Imperatives Quotes

• If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Love Yourself, Learning

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

  Vandana Shiva

  Luxury, Diversity, Survival

  Vandana Shiva (2005). “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace”, p.94, Zed Books

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• All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

  Ayn Rand

  Evil, Novelists, Use

  "The Virtue of Selfishness". Book by Ayn Rand, 1964.

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• Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Society, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.15, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Human beings are not meant to live alone. There is a fundamental biological imperative that propels you and every organism on this planet to be in a community, to be in relationship with other organisms.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Relationship, People, Community

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• The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security.

  Maurice Strong

  Powerful, Yield, Community

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• Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

  Henry Miller

  Integrity, Commitment, Fate

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• [ To break the law] would still be an imperative. I guess we do it for both reasons. You try to be a Christian, you try to come from that tradition of the Jewish prophets and then Christ and everything since. That becomes your handbook. "Witness" is the key word. You witness against the injustice, against the atrocity, against the heavy-handedness, and all the rest. We try to make a statement to other people, and we try to say it's your responsibility, too.

  Philip Berrigan

  Christian, Responsibility, Law

  Source: law-journals-books.vlex.com

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• Working hard and doing doing great work is as imperative as breathing. Creating great work warms the heart and enriches the soul. Those of us lucky enough to spend our days doing something we love, something we're good at, are rich. If you do not work passionately (even furiously) at being the best in the world at what you do, you fail your talent, your destiny, and your god.

  George Lois

  Heart, Destiny, Breathing

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• But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the New Jerusalem: the ability to take our freedom seriously and act on it, to live not in fear of mistakes but in the knowledge that no mistake can hold a candle to the love that draws us home. My repentance, accordingly, is not so much for my failings but for the two-bit attitude toward them by which I made them more sovereign than grace. Grace - the imperative to hear the music, not just listen for errors - makes all infirmities occasions of glory.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesus, Attitude, Mistake

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• The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt... ," but "If ... then ... else.

  Steven Pinker

  Typical, Biology, If Then

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.

  C. S. Lewis

  Nature, Looks, Spirit

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons for doing so - the imperative, invincible call of God. No one is to show cause why he ought not to be a Minister: he is to show cause why he should be a Minister. His call to the sacred profession is not the absence of a call to any other pursuit; it is direct, immediate, powerful, to this very department of labour. He is not here because he can be nowhere else, but he is nowhere else because he must be here.

  James Henley Thornwell

  Christian, Powerful, Rich Or Poor

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• Equal pay is not yet equal. A woman makes $0.77 on a dollar and women of color make $0.67... We feel so passionately about this because we are not only running for office, but we each, in our own way, have lived it. We have seen it. We have understood the pain and the injustice that has come because of race, because of gender. And it's imperative that... we make it very clear that each of us will address these issues.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Pain, Issues

  Hillary Clinton's remarks at the Democratic presidential debate sponsored by CNN and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, edition.cnn.com. January 21, 2008.

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• I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Thinking, Earth

  Source: inamerica.blogs.cnn.com

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• The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Spiritual, Destiny, Conception

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• Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Police, Defense, Environment

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• I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that 'spark' yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do.

  Steve Kerr

  Motivational, Basketball, Heart

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• A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophical, Would Be, Purpose

  Immanuel Kant (1993). “Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: with On a Supposed Right to Lie because of Philanthropic Concerns”, p.25, Hackett Publishing

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• The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

  Barbara Jordan

  Inspirational, Character, Philanthropy

  Barbara Jordan, Elspeth D. Rostow, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin (1986). “The Great Society: A Twenty Year Critique”, Univ Texas at Austin Lyndon B

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• The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

  Bell Hooks

  Political, Movement, Speech

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.75, Routledge

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• Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, War

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

  David Duchovny

  Living Right, Television, Film

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• My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Wish, Reason, Categorical Imperative

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• 'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

  Christine Pelosi

  Men, Sexist, Gender

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