Action Quote by Immanuel Kant

If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical…

— Emir Kusturica

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

— Barbara Jordan

In a concurrent world, imperative is the wrong default!

— Tim Sweeney

God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.

— Elisabeth Elliot

Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

— Frans de Waal

The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow…

— Don Richardson

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

— Soren Kierkegaard

An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second,…

— Allen W. Wood

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to…

— James Anthony Froude

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences.…

— Barbara Hall

Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to…

— Oliver Cromwell