Best Imperatives Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If we conform our behavior to God’s ancient moral prescription, we are entitled to the sweet benefits of life. But if we defy its imperatives, then death is the inevitable consequence. AIDS is only one avenue by which sickness and death befall those who play Russian roulette with God’s eternal moral law.”

Source: Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“The irony is that if we make every imperative into a command to believe the gospel more fully, we turn the gospel into one more thing we have to get right, and faith becomes the one thing we need to be better at.”

Faith Imperatives Gospel

Book:The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness

Source: The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness

“A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.”

“The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.”

Sometimes Seems Today Order Religious Moral Opposites Saving God Love Imperatives Prevailing Proclamation Saving Love

Book:Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday

Source: Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday

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

Moments Imperatives God Is In Control

Author:Joel Salatin

“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 an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.”

Mean Use Moral Morality Survival Ethics Greed Description Accurate Imperatives Interdependence Hubris Morality And Ethics

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.”

Ifs Knows Men Two Different Law Desire Cases Century Divine Members Men And Women Unions Decades Mysterious Hopeful Tribes Imperatives Reconcile Matrimony Divine Law

Author:Andrew Schneider

“It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we shall have no wounds to bind with Gospel bandages.”

Today Law Religion Christianity Conscience Wounds Preacher Imperatives Bandages

Book:Today's Gospel: Authentic Or Synthetic?

Source: Today's Gospel: Authentic Or Synthetic?

“I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the root of our moral and spiritual maladies and deal with causes rather than with consequences, with the disease rather than with symptoms.”

Needs Believe Spiritual Religion I Believe Causes Deals Moral Christianity Disease Consequence Roots Radical Symptoms Imperatives Revival Reformation Malady

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“It is absolutely imperative at the outset that you come to terms with this simple yet life-changing truth: God is for you. If you don't believe that, then you'll pray small timid prayers; if you do believe it, then you'll pray big audacious prayers.”

Ifs Believe Bigs Term Prayer Simple Praying Don't Believe Life Changing Imperatives Audacious

Author:Mark Batterson

“It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement.”

Enough School Voice Students Improvement Meaningful Ethical Imperatives Involvement Educator Why Me

Author:Adam Fletcher

“Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change... Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.”

“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 as oligarchies of their own members.”

Should Together Interesting Members Organization Firm Corporations Our Time Communist Capitalist Imperatives Oligarchy

Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.”

Waste Complexes Phrases Wasting Time Imperatives Daydreaming Musings Small Talk

Author:Tom Peters

“Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.s if possible.”

Ifs Mind Children Long War Turns Fool Waste Lays Tricks Dirty Sanity Rapids Imperatives Thorough Nuclear War Brainwashing Imbeciles Dirty Minds

Book:The Politics of Experience

Source: The Politics of Experience

“In Matthew 16:19, Jesus said that He would give us the keys to the Kingdom. Faith is the major key that opens every door in the Kingdom. It is a master key. Therefore it is imperative that we understand the ways of faith. Because these keys are the ways of God the natural man cannot receive them. They are spiritually understood. They are foolishness to the natural man. When a gift of the Spirit operates. Then we are able to impart that gift to others and teach them how to function in it also.”

Men Way Giving Said Able Spirit Jesus Natural Teach Doors Masters Keys Majors Understood Function Kingdoms Foolishness Imperatives Impart Matthew Gifts Of The Spirit Keys To The Kingdom

Author:Phil Pringle

“It is imperative that we find that vital element that brings us alive... the true vitality that waits beneath all occupations for us to tap into, if we can discover what we love. If you feel energy and excitement and a sense that life is happening for the first time, you are probably near your God-given nature. Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Life Is Joy Energy Given Waiting Alive Elements Happenings First Time Features Excitement Occupation Vitality Imperatives

Author:Mark Nepo

“A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such as ours, produces many paradoxes. But perhaps the most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.”

States Age Moving Found Nations Process Produce Moving Forward Our Time Tragic Paradox Rapids Imperatives Internationalism Rapid Change

Author:Earl Warren

“While our responses to the problems facing us immediately are also important, we cannot forget to carve out the future of Japan ten or one hundred years into the future. In doing so, we must not resort to superficial measures. Instead, it is imperative to engage in true reforms that ascertain the state of society we seek to achieve.”

Years Important States Problem Forget Achieve Ten Hundred Response Reform Japan Superficial Resorts Imperatives

Author:Shinzo Abe

“Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!”

Remember Demand Imperatives

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.”

Men Desire Effort Opinion Building Theory Concerned Praise Insight Conception Imaginary Shelter Preservation Persistent Imperatives Spectacular Building Up

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.”

Men Mean Secret Discipline Behavior Ethics Code Rejects Poetry Is Capability Imperatives Falsification Categorical Imperative

Author:Jean Cocteau

“The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure is honourable and becomes imperative partly because it shows exemption from ignoble labour.”

Mean Shows Noble Employment Distinction Labour Leisure Imperatives Ignoble Exemption Ascendancy

Book:The Theory of the Leisure Class

Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class

“Only through blind Instinct, in which the only possible guidance of the Imperative is awanting, does the Power in Intuition remain undetermined; where it is schematised as absolute it becomes infinite; and where it is presented in a determinate form, as a principle, it becomes at least manifold. By the above-mentioned act of Intelligising, the Power liberates itself from Instinct, to direct itself towards Unity.”

Doe Form Principles Direct Absolutes Infinite Blind Unity Instinct Intuition Guidance Imperatives Manifold

Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.”

Thinking Humans Opportunity Justice Moral Struggle Security Dignity Bases Harmony Tolerance Pursuit Quests Imperatives Human Dignity Equality Of Opportunity

Author:Aga Khan IV

“It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ... My work requires it - but I myself have no need or use for it - Perhaps once on a time I found isolation imperative - I think all chrysalides do - all embryos go for the underside of the leaf in the time of body-change preparing for the final reassertion -resurrection - the establishment of the entity. But now I've come up tot the outside of my casements.”

Thinking Needs Use Body Found Finals Come Up Isolation Establishment Resurrection Entity Preparing Leafs Imperatives Embryos Tots Body Change

Author:Marsden Hartley

“They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the way they have begun; they have voiced most of all the imperative need of essential personalism, of direct expression of direct experience.”

Way Needs Modern Expression Development Essentials Direct Prophet Imperatives Gateways

Book:Adventures in the Arts

Source: Adventures in the Arts

“The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.”

Self Philosophy Interest Brain Failing Stem Altruism Imperatives Self Interest Brutes

Book:Blindsight

Source: Blindsight

“Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.”

Moral Following Enterprise Imperatives

Book:Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea

Source: Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea

“Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.”

Needs Mind Mean States Moments Form Individual Creation Particular Expression Mood Rhythm Release Colour Appropriate State Of Mind Imperatives Individual Work

Author:Lyonel Feininger

“We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an anaesthetised body. I would be the last person to argue that the body signifies at some basic level that precedes or transcends its cultural inscriptions. Nevertheless, there is an ethical imperative not to conflate the body with its representations and mediations, but to remember that there is an actual body there somewhere, experiencing the consequences of what is being done to it.”

Needs Persons Done Body Happens Would Be Lasts Remember Levels Consequence Arguing Ethical Nevertheless Representation Imperatives Being Done Mediation Inscriptions

Author:Philip Auslander

“To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency - how to accurately anticipate the future.”

Age Growing Uncertainty Thrive New Age Imperatives Anticipate Hyper Competencies

Author:Daniel Burrus

“Darwinism undermined traditional morality and the value of human life. Then, evolutionary progress became the new moral imperative. This aided the advance of eugenics, which was overtly founded on Darwinian principles. Some eugenicists began advocating euthanasia and infanticide for the disabled. On a parallel track, some prominent Darwinists argued that human racial competition and war is part of the Darwinian struggle for existence. Hitler imbibed these social Darwinist ideas, blended in virulent anti-Semitism, and--there you have it: Holocaust”

“In the USA, where so many people compete for one and the same thing, where job opportunities, residential facilities, and food resources have to be spread over so many people, the question of justice becomes more imperative than ever before if communal and individual life is to be made possible and enjoyable.”

People Ifs Made Wisdom Jobs Life Is Opportunity Politics Individual Justice Economy Resources Spread Usa Liberalism Imperatives Enjoyable Facility Individual Life Job Opportunities

Author:Ndabaningi Sithole

“There are those who feel an imperative need to believe, for whom the values of a belief are proportionate not to its truth, but to its definiteness. Incapable of either admitting the existence of contrary judgments or of suspending their own, they supply the place of knowledge by turning other men's conjectures into dogmas.”

Men Needs Feels Believe Values Belief Existence Atheism Judgment Positive Atheism Contrary Dogma Incapable Imperatives Admitting Conjecture

Author:C. E. M. Joad

“Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be.”

Needs Should Moral Rational Imperatives

Author:Charlie Munger

“Read a work on the "Evidences of Christianity," and it may become highly probable that Christianity, etc., are true. This is an opinion. Feel God. Do His will, till the Absolute Imperative within you speaks as with a living voice, "Thou shalt, and thou shalt not;" and then you do not think, you know that there is a God.”

Thinking Knows Feels May Speak Voice Christianity Opinion Evidence Absolutes Etc Within You Imperatives

Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.”

Self Action Principles Determination Mere Phrases Self Determination Peril Imperatives Statesmen

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.”

Men War Nations Sacrifice Conviction Welfare Honorable Imperatives Honorable Man

Book:Fear God and Take Your Own Part

Source: Fear God and Take Your Own Part

“It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensive domestic cigars.”

May Cases Cry Baby Coaches Flying Tendencies Smoking Imaginative Imperatives Cigar Cabins Inexpensive

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.”

Firsts Age Next Generations Middle Shapes Tests Stress Guilt Species Burden Scales Grades Forty Fitness Imperatives Middle Ages My Generation Godliness

Book:Making Sense

Source: Making Sense

“The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.”

People War Desire Brain Practice Magic Rational Primitive Sophisticated Stem Imperatives Coexist Love And War

Book:What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

“Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.”

People World Earth Moral Ought Travel Acquire Being The Best Concentration Traveled Desirable Imperatives Worldliness

Book:The feminine eye

Source: The feminine eye

“Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence.”

Giving Certain Secret Emotion Rights Mankind Duty Former Latter Unconditional Imperatives Benevolence Conditional

Author:Immanuel Kant

“I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.”

Mind Science Brain Moral Imperatives

Book:C.B. Greenfield: A Little Madness

Source: C.B. Greenfield: A Little Madness

“In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, surveillance of private persons and devote available resources to address global challenges including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a green economy.”

“When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.”

Way May Done Results Mass Critical Symbols Manipulation Imperatives Things Done

Author:John Grierson

“How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. Political time moves at a snail's pace because it is only with nearly insurmountable difficulty that moral discomfort takes root in the best of people, forcing an imperative out of a complaint; so viscerally repugnant is it for a critical mass to find the prevailing system unbearable, much less prepare to take up arms against it.”

“the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the collective and institutional power to make change, at least as much as with the individual will to change. It also lies in the absolute moral imperative to break the childish, deadly circularity of centuries of blindness to the shimmering brilliance of our common, ordinary humanity.”

Source: Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race

“To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the narrator, to desire itself, or to lack? This is a work of complexly, ambiguously layered narratives and identities. The opening poem asserts I want to say what happened / but am suspicious of stories. These lines become an ars poetica for the whole of this painful and exceptional collection in which the unspeakable is stubbornly confronted by a searing eloquence. This is a commanding debut.”

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