Imperatives Quotes

36 Imperatives quotes by 33 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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… — Unknown Author
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… — Unknown Author
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives. — Paul Davies
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
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
To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself… — Emile M. Cioran
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the… — Margaret Mead
Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news… — Brit Hume
We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in power in this… — John Lindsay
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

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