Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread…

“I prefer the American spirit, the one that called us from the Old World to the New, to conquer and build and civilize. And…

— Colson Whitehead

“my father liked his Indian talk about the Great Spirit," Ridgeway said. "All these years late, I prefer the American spirit, the one that…

— Colson Whitehead

Private property in the instruments of production is an institutional device both for dispersing power and for securing effective organization of production. The only…

— Henry Calvert Simons

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

— Abraham Lincoln

With golf becoming part of the Olympics now, it is even more imperative that more of the middle class get access to the sport.

— Jeev Milkha Singh

“The aesthetical imperative: If you desire to see, learn how to act”

— Heinz von Foerster

“Functional programming has excellent support for writing imperative programs, with the added benefit that such programs can be reasoned about equationally because they're referentially…

— Anonymous

We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and…

— Thomas Ligotti

'Eternal inflation,' as it's called - the endless generation of new universes - may be a hyper-cosmic imperative. It seems that it must happen.

— Seth Shostak

The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt... ," but "If ... then ... else.

— Steven Pinker

And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Gender equality cannot be achieved by cutting programs that allow girls to get the same chance to compete, learn, and play. The United States…

— Linda Sanchez

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

— Immanuel Kant

Protecting our planet is a moral imperative.

— Johan Rockstrom

In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali