Quotes of: Imperatives Keyword

It's not imperative that I graduate in four years, and it's not imperative that I get all A's.

Kellie Martin

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 can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled ho...

Ursula K. Le Guin

Imperator Furiosa: You never gonna have a better chance. Max Rockatansky: At what? Imperator Furiosa: Redemption.

Mad Max: Fury Road

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animals Origins of Property and Nations

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.

The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animals Origins of Property and Nations

What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situation, will animate man in a manner no different from other territorial species.

The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animals Origins of Property and Nations

Imperator Furiosa: How does it feel? The Splendid Angharad: It hurts. Imperator Furiosa: Out here, everything hurts. You wanna get through this? Do as I say. Now pick up what you can and run.

Mad Max: Fury Road

Max Rockatansky: You need to take the War Rig half a click down the track. Imperator Furiosa: What if you're not back by the time the engines are cooled? Max Rockatansky: [Shrugs] Well you keep moving. [Heads off towards the Bullet Farmer's gunfire] ...

Mad Max: Fury Road

But if it is true that human minds are themselves to a very great degree the creations of memes, then we cannot sustain the polarity of vision we considered earlier; it cannot be "memes versus us," because earlier infestations of memes have already p...

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

Desmond Tutu

Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.

Abdallah II of Jordan

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

Barbara Jordan

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

Mira Nair

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

H. G. Wells

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

Henry A. Kissinger

With golf becoming part of the Olympics now, it is even more imperative that more of the middle class get access to the sport.

Jeev Milkha Singh

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

John Yarmuth

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

bell hooks

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Henry Miller

My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.

Joel Salatin

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

Dwight D. Eisenhower