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• When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.

  John Grierson

  Done, May, Way

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• The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Order, Opposites

  Pope Francis (2015). “Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday”, p.18, Image

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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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• When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

  Joan Didion

  Thinking, Want Something, Moral

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Apr 18, 2013

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• It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.

  Rene Daumal

  Writing, Goal, Confusion

  Rene Daumal (2003). “A Night of Serious Drinking”, p.21, The Overlook Press

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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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• It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Believe, Mean, Sometimes

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• "Government gets things right" does not encourage sales. "Government makes another blunder" does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.

  John Major

  Government, Doe, Blunders

  "'I shouldn't have read the papers so much when I was PM'". Interview with Julia Langdon, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2007.

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• To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self-inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth, or heal our sick planet, is evidence of our immense capacity for self delusion. Rather, we need to protect ourselves from ourselves.

  Lynn Margulis

  Moving, Responsibility, Self

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• It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

  Tim O'Brien

  War, Mistake, Views

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives.

  John Updike

  Animal, Frustrated, Suffering

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• The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry — is not even a ”subject " — but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.

  Neil Postman

  Mistake, Humility, Views

  "The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School".

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• If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

  E. O. Wilson

  Failure, Memorable, Successful

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.16, Vintage

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• The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

  E. B. White

  Moving, Knights, Organization

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.200, Cornell University Press

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• Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

  Desmond Tutu

  Self, Way, Moral

  "Facing the Future: Global Education at the Crossroads" by Desmond Tutu, Dennis Van Roekel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

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• We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Pain, Sacrifice, Class

  "Interview with DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz" by John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 2, 2011.

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• We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Government, America, People

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• If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Speaks Out, People, Choices

  "Cartoon conflicts" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2006.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

  Mira Nair

  Games, Creative, Hollywood

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• It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Kids, Vacation

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• Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.

  Abdallah II

  Israel, Jordan, Strategic

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