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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is only one categorical imperative in golf, and that is to hit the ball. There are no minor absolutes. -- Charles Walter Simpson

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