#imperative

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#adapt #ever #imperative #inexorable #now

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#any #categorical #imperative #itself #necessary

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings. ↗

— John Thorn

#beings #both #children #how #human

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#come #democracy #hypocrisy #idea #imperatives

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#another #another way #committed #effort #endeavor

Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#israel #jordan #peace #strategic

A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#academic #account #cell #cell phone #children

In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else. ↗

— Eric Massa

#cannot #care #changing #changing the world #else

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

#article #categorical #central #constitution #declare

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else. ↗

— Doris Roberts

#choice #dies #down #else #food