The imperative need of this nation at all times is the…

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing…

— Ludwig von Mises

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

— Friedrich Schiller

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

— Malcolm Wallop

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

— Lucy Larcom

“There is, at this moment, imperative need for men possessing, like Aristotle, universal knowledge.”

— Anonymous

What we need now is a nation of great people who live to positively impact others and build enduring legacies

— Anonymous

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when…

— Herbert Hoover

To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.

— Peter Calthorpe

Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other;…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second,…

— Allen W. Wood

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

— Ayn Rand

In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the…

— Marsden Hartley

It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ... My work requires it - but I myself have no need or…

— Marsden Hartley

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to…

— Douglas Crimp