Moral Imperative Quotes

#1. Proselytizing is a moral imperative and feeds the marketplace of ideas. I want to hear everyone tell the truth as they see it. I want to learn from everyone.

Penn Jillette

#2. Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.

George Lakoff

#3. I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.

Rick Bass

#4. There are good people, who are in politics - in both parties - who hold this at arm's length, because if they acknowledge it and recognize it, then the moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable.

Al Gore

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

Charlie Munger

#6. 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. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

#7. All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

Ayn Rand

#8. Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a healthy, prosperous future for everyone is a goal I believe we all share.

Bill Gates

#9. You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and a tool to institute fairness that capitalism supposedly hasn't.

David Harsanyi

#10. I believe the free enterprise system is not an economic alternative. It's a moral imperative.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#11. We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.

Paddy Ashdown

#12. To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

Marianne Williamson

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

John Yarmuth

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Just as everyone in a tribe praying to a volcano god would reinforce the idea that there is a volcano god, so begging politicians for favors reinforces the idea that there is a rightful ruling class, that their commands are "law," and that obedience to such "laws" is a moral imperative.

Larken Rose

#17. The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable ... that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

Al Gore

#18. Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

#19. A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.

Catherynne M Valente

#20. Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we have to do can be seen as a kind of coming alive. More than some moral imperative, it's an awakening to our true nature, a releasing of our gifts.

Joanna Macy

#21. When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something ... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

Joan Didion

#22. 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

#23. Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.

Ronald Reagan

#24. Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.

Andrew Mitchell

#25. 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.

Shana Alexander

#26. 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

#27. Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause -it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Harold Rosenberg

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

Henry A. Kissinger

#29. 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

#30. What? It's not my fault I stab all the fanged people. They shouldn't look like Daimons. (Tabitha)
I didn't look like a Daimon, but you stabbed me. (Valerius)
Yeah, well, you looked like a lawyer so I had to kill you. It was a moral imperative. (Tabitha)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

Lucille Kallen

#32. You always say oh, that's so unprofessional as though there's some definition of professional that's also a moral imperative for how to behave.

Miriam Toews

#33. Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

Hillary Clinton

#34. Love is not an intellectual concept or a moral imperative or anything else. It is the background emotion that exists when one is connected to the energy available in the universe, which of course, is the energy of God.

James Redfield

#35. We're all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age. We have a moral imperative to act and act now.

David Cameron

#36. If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

E. O. Wilson

#37. 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

#38. I think optimism is a moral imperative.

Marianne Williamson

#39. Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.

Ban Ki-moon

#40. Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists is a moral imperative for us and also makes the world safer for us.

Elliott Abrams

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. We've got the science, we've had the debate. The moral imperative is on the table. Great creativity is needed to take it all, make it simple and sharp. To make it connect. To make it make people want to act.

Andy Hobsbawm

#44. Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical that promises success.

Henry Highland Garnet

#45. All sentient beings should have at least one right - the right not to be treated as property

Gary L. Francione

#46. There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

Oriana Fallaci

#47. 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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#48. I should never have allowed the gates of the town to be opened to people who assert that there are higher considerations than those of decency.

J.M. Coetzee

#49. As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing.

Andrew O'Hagan

#50. If I feel sure of one thing, it is that this kind of "health" imperative is not moral. It is grooming.

Mark Greif

#51. After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.

Carson McCullers

#52. Inexperienced in the course of world affairs and incapable of being prepared for all the chances that happen in it, I ask myself only 'Can you also will that your maxim should become a universal law?' Where you cannot it is to be rejected...

Immanuel Kant