The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who… — Don Richardson Copy Share Image
Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The music and the message, to me, is something that is imperative and that's what drives me know. — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
Treating other people as you would like to be treated. It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural… — Phil Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
It's every actor's dream to be seen on the big screen. Having said that, it's also imperative to better yourself as an… — Indraneel Bhattacharya Copy Share Image
It is imperative that Christians be like Jesus, by living freely within the culture as missionaries who are as faithful to the… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
It is imperative that we do not fear challenges that we have attracted to promote our growth. Every obstacle we encounter is… — Dannion Brinkley Copy Share Image
Modernity has reneged on its promise to young people to provide social mobility, stability and collective security. Long-term planning and the institutional… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation… — Peter Calthorpe Copy Share Image
Nothing in our time is more interesting than the erstwhile capitalist corporation and the erstwhile Communist firm should, under the imperatives of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We need to invest in clean energy technologies. We need to rush them to market while rebuilding our energy networks intelligently. And… — Jayni Chase Copy Share Image
We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
To stimulate optimal size and strength increases, it's imperative that you regularly attempt the momentarily impossible. For example, if you can curl… — Mike Mentzer Copy Share Image
There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On… — Erik Wemple Copy Share Image
It was equally imperative that this chain of reactions should always tend to dampen, to die out. It must not build up,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Globalization is now no longer an objective but an imperative, as markets open and geographic barriers become increasingly blurred and even irrelevant. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. In order to achieve happiness, it is imperative to gain mastery of your body.… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
I'm very fatalistic about life. Whatever happens, happens. The imperative for me is that I do my contribution for my people, for… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The unconscious mind governs our decision-making, and much of our communications. It's imperative, if you want to be a successful leader, to… — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that… — Adam Fletcher Copy Share Image
It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative… — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
![“Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of the Mall - govern our lives, we are in escalating danger of destroying the commonwealth of all sentient beings - bugs and bees and buntings - on which we depend for a…” quote by Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44f/sam-keen-4929_bees_without-reverence-we-people-will-gradual_610398.png)
