Imperatives Quotes

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.

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

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.