Imperatives Quotes

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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
Nothing in our time is more interesting than the erstwhile capitalist corporation and the erstwhile Communist firm should, under the imperatives of organization, come together… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives. — Tom Peters
The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing. — Pope Francis
'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives. — Christine Pelosi
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy. — Paul Wellstone
To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for… — John Updike
In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be â€œperfectâ€ men and women in at least this one… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And… — Cornel West
You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from… — Stephen King
We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are things that we… — Charlie Pierce
Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall… — Malcolm X

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