Imperatives Quotes
36 quotes by 34 authors
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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the…
— Al Alvarez
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Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so desperately needed in the world…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and…
— E. O. Wilson
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To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all things…
— Gerald Holton
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The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and…
— Maurice Strong
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The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and…
— Ralph Nader
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
— Earl Warren
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To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geo-strategy are…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency…
— Rosy Cole
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The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life. It's between the…
— Jeff Sharlet
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Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and…
— Maurice Strong
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We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the universe, the earth, and the imperatives of our own being. Each of these has a creative power…
— Thomas Berry
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If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their…
— Ellen Willis
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A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served…
— Michael Pollan
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Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys…
— Joyce Appleby
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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; nor…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives.
— Paul Davies
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Human enhancement is now being driven by military imperatives, at least in the US, because civilian society is more conservative in its approach. It’s a…
— Jessa Gamble
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Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth…
— Kenny Smith
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