Imperative Quotes

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I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others. — Tinie Tempah
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
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. — H.G. Wells
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative. — Elwyn Brooks White
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… — E. O. Wilson
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… — Neil Postman
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… — Tim O'Brien
The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to… — Frederick Douglass
While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at… — C.S. Lewis
The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view… — Terry Eagleton
The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for… — Bertrand Russell
...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states… — Hermann Hesse
Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need… — Martin Heidegger
In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe that what we get out of life is what we've set ourselves up to get, so there's no such thing as an inconsequential… — Megan McCafferty
But it is imperative, for our own survival, that we avoiid one another, and what more successful means of avoidance are there than words? Language… — Janet Frame
The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and… — Ayn Rand
After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and… — Carson McCullers
What? It's not my fault I stab all the fanged people. They shouldn't look like Daimons. (Tabitha) I didn't look like a Daimon, but you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I believe that we carry within us a divinely inspired moral imperative to love ... We have within us the ability to change for the… — Dean Koontz

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