Preventing ongoing extinction of elephants, rhinoceroses, and other threatened species is critically important. By all means, we must set priorities for allocating finite conservation resources.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.
Any known attempt at proselyting would be instantly amenable at a criminal tribunal and would probably be punished by the death of the proselyte and the banishment of the missionary. All efforts must be conducted in private and are therefore very limited.
Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream.
The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of it.
Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combination, Israel must respond.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
Conservatives should defend free speech - but we must not amplify it when it's blatantly grotesque.
One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
