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The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy. -- Paul Wellstone
'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives. -- Christine Pelosi
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. -- Earl Warren
Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing. -- Pope Francis
We simply cannot afford to allow our government to go unscrutinised, most of all in amid the bleak seeming imperatives of the 'war on terror'. -- Nick Harkaway
Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem. -- Malcolm X
Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air. -- Brit Hume
We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are things that we own in common with each other, and that we are obliged to protect for our posterity. The water. The trees. The wild places in the land. We lose sight of these truths sometimes. -- Charlie Pierce
Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
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The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives. -- Paul Davies
His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army. -- Joseph J. Ellis
Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives. -- Tom Peters
Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue... -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment. -- Ralph Nader
No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques. -- E. O. Wilson
Nothing in our time is more interesting than the erstwhile capitalist corporation and the erstwhile Communist firm should, under the imperatives of organization, come together as oligarchies of their own members. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of the good life outside of the imperatives of predatory capitalism. -- Henry Giroux
That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society is a crucial concept that can be applied to other cultures. -- Stella Chess
You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives -- Stephen King
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival. -- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
Overall, the work of rebuilding and transforming government for the digital age is only just beginning. Governments remain organized according to political and bureaucratic imperatives, not according to what makes the most sense to citizens. -- Andrew Leigh

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