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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. -- Immanuel Kant
My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
President Obama's policies have been categorical failures for our country. Unemployment is over nine percent, our deficits are growing, and small businesses are being burdened with regulations. -- Timothy Griffin
After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution. -- Kenzaburo Oe
Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it. -- Kajol
At the end of their first years, there are few people who would have predicted that Truman would be elected in 1948 or that Reagan would get a second term. It's always premature to make some kind of categorical judgment after the first year in office. -- Robert Dallek
Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else... -- Mikhail Bakunin
There is only one categorical imperative in golf, and that is to hit the ball. There are no minor absolutes. -- Charles Walter Simpson
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
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
On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. -- Benito Mussolini
This has suggested to some that the very structure of human thought is oppositional-that is to say, rational and associative, rather than linear and categorical. -- Marcel Danesi
I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal. -- Desmond Tutu
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
To trace the development of mind from earliest times ... requires ... not a categorical concept, but a functional one.... The most promising operational principle for this purpose is the principle of individuation. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
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. -- Jean Cocteau
I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical. -- W.S. Gilbert

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