What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Human enhancement is now being driven by military imperatives, at least in the US, because civilian society is more conservative in its… — Jessa Gamble Copy Share Image
To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the… — Lynn Emanuel Copy Share Image
Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable;… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
Read a work on the "Evidences of Christianity," and it may become highly probable that Christianity, etc., are true. This is an… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamicsthat present… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
The scientists are virtually screaming from the rooftops now. The debate is over! There's no longer any debate in the scientific community… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Forgiving ourselves for all the woulda-shoulda-couldas in life, and sometimes forgiving others for actions that we feel undercut or undermine our good,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Polls show that most people in the world favor humbler, more compassionate solutions to our common problems. Not only favor them but,… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
Equal pay is not yet equal. A woman makes $0.77 on a dollar and women of color make $0.67... We feel so… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life.… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
The act of writing should not be accompanied by the sense of an audience, someone peering over your shoulder, but in nonfiction… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children.… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
In every other religion the indicative flows from the imperative. Which means, ‘because I do, therefore I am... because I do this,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
There are those who feel an imperative need to believe, for whom the values of a belief are proportionate not to its… — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's imperative to realize that it is not necessary to try to get rid of fear in order to succeed. Rich and… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy. This is also… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral… — Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher Copy Share Image
“If we conform our behavior to God’s ancient moral prescription, we are entitled to the sweet benefits of life. But if we… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
The rapidly evolving global economy demands a dynamic and creative workforce. The arts and its related businesses are responsible for billions of… — Charles Segars Copy Share Image
I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Environmental policies are not just about good publicity; they are about responding to the moral imperative to address both climate change and… — Toby Robins Copy Share Image
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… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
In our course we teach that "no thought lives in your head rent-free." Each thought you have will either be an investment… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
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