On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and…

Treating other people as you would like to be treated. It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural beliefs.

— Phil Zuckerman

“In the Gospel, there is a sentence that expresses the same ethical imperative in a more fascinating way: “Blessed are the poor in spirit:…

— Luigi Giussani

We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an anaesthetised body.…

— Philip Auslander

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

Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The great biblical…

— Pope Francis

The climate change problem is at its heart an ethical problem. It's a problem of income distribution and it's a problem of income distribution…

— Ross Garnaut

It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

— Pope Francis

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

— Eric Hoffer

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

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