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Mistrust all those in whom the desire to punish is imperative - Goethe
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.
— Tinie Tempah
If understanding is impossible, knowing is imperative, because what happened could happen again.
— Primo Levi
I think optimism is a moral imperative.
— Marianne Williamson
Silence, silence.' All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative. Fifty
— Aldous Huxley
Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control ... It is imperative that we learn where UFOs come from and what their purpose is ...
— Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
— Barbara Jordan
In order to understand more it is imperative that we improve our knowledge before choosing which side of the fence we feel compelled to belong,
— J.P. Robinson
Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.
— Nathaniel Branden
Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be.
— Charlie Munger
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Requests will always exceed resources. Doing good is imperative. Doing everything is impossible.
— J. Grant Howard
The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.
— Don Richardson
On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act.
— Pope Francis
If there was ever a time to create, it is now!
— Michele Jennae
Treating other people as you would like to be treated. It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural beliefs.
— Phil Zuckerman
It is imperative for our mental health that we surround ourselves with like minded people.
— Rob Martin
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
— Ida Tarbell
Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combinedwith the imperative of accomplishing nothing. — Alexander Theroux
When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
— John Grierson
When you say yes to something, it's imperative that you understand what you're saying no to.
— Gary Keller
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 typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt ... ," but "If ... then ... else.
— Steven Pinker
He ceased to be able to distinguish between personal preference and moral imperative, and he ceased to accept that such a distinction was possible.
— Eleanor Catton
Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.
— Woodrow Wilson
The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.
— Robert Pollin
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
— Eugene McCarthy
Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.
— Peter Watts
Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.
— Lucy Larcom
Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.
— George Lakoff
Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.
— James Heckman
The willingness to listen and act on your inspiration is imperative if you're going to live the life you desire.
— Wayne Dyer
The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.
— C. G. Weeramantry
The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.
— Henry A. Kissinger
It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
Does management resist the institutional imperative?
— Warren Buffett
Don't be misled: The imperative to 'Enjoy!' is omnipresent, but pleasure and happiness are almost entirely absent.
— Nina Power
The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
It is imperative that we move away from the concept of a self as an indivisible, rigid and limited reality.
— Jane Roberts
There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the people they're serving.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think love is an imperative. It obligates you.
— Marisa De Los Santos
It is imperative that women have quality affordable day care available to them because without it, families suffer.
— Sander Levin
Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others
— Ezekiel Emanuel
Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.
— Mira Nair
Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.
— J. B. Pritzker
To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.
— Marianne Williamson
one legend has it that Jews found Poland attractive because the country's name sounded like the Hebrew imperative po lin ("rest here").
— Diane Ackerman
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
— Henry Miller
Service is an imperative for those who worship Jesus Christ and a covenant obligation of those who belong to his Church.
— Dallin H. Oaks
It's not imperative that I graduate in four years, and it's not imperative that I get all A's.
— Kellie Martin
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hamilton saw America's essential nature being forged in the throes of battle, and that made honest action imperative.
— Ron Chernow
It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings.
— Franklin Carmichael
It is imperative that you know that your activities on earth must have to it some divine purpose.
— Sunday Adelaja
Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.
— Colin Fletcher
Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.
— John Yarmuth
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
— Daniel Barenboim
Training is imperative for raising a team.
— Sunday Adelaja
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
— Woodrow Wilson
All sentient beings should have at least one right - the right not to be treated as property
— Gary L. Francione
I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.
— David Bowie
Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.
— Andrew Mitchell
It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Can you identify the voices inside of your own head? It's imperative that you do so you can understand who is doing your thinking.
— Toni Sorenson
Unbalanced power poisons introspection. In its vacated space lay living society's imperative questions, unseen, unphrased, unasked, unanswered.
— Randall Robinson
In a world filled with mistrust, armed to the teeth and ready to explode, a realistic attitude might be to consider love as an imperative need.
— Dominique De Menil
She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.
— Neil Gaiman
How do we represent female pain without producing a culture in which this pain has been fetishized to the point of fantasy or imperative?
— Leslie Jamison
The engineers were under imperative orders
— Sam Davis
I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.
— Lucille Kallen
Ensuring possibility is kept alive is imperative.
— Steven Redhead
Your survival is imperative. With your death would come great loss. The supernatural world would be unable to recover itself for a millennium.
— Amanda Carlson
It is imperative that those who name the name of Christ would be instructed in the truth of Scripture.
— Alistair Begg
Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened.
— Markus Zusak
Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative.
— Yann Martel
Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
— Abdallah II Of Jordan