Must Quotes

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.

To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.

I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.

Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

I think it is not necessary at this time to put forth a grand vision such as an East Asian Community. What we must do before that is create scenarios for Japan's response in case of a serious territorial incident.

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.