“A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal.” MindChildrenStillsAmericaYoungGoalImaginationEducationThirdsOur ChildrenYour ChildrenOur SocietyClassroomYoung MindsGreat SocietyThird Place Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.” ThinkingMayFunnyAmericaImaginationStupidityCommitPlus Author:Charles de Gaulle
“The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth. Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history we still possess in ample measure.” PeopleHumansMadeStillsProblemEarthAmericaLyingForceImaginationAnswersQualityProgressFieldsPrideEntrepreneurUniversityProsperityHardestFactoriesHuman HistoryLaboratoryDon't Lie Author:Barack Obama
“What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination that looks forward to the making of a future, not backward to the insignia of the past. Their enterprise is underwritten by a Constitution that allows for the widest horizons of sight and the broadest range of expression, supports the liberties of the people as opposed to the ambitions of the state, and stands as premise for a narrative rather than plan for an invasion or a monument. The narrative was always plural; not one story, many stories.” PeopleLooksStatesStoriesAmericaPastLanguageImaginationCommonRaceLibertySupportPlansExpressionAmbitionSightConstitutionNarrativeRangeEnterpriseHorizonMonumentInvasionPremisesAncestry Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.” HumansAmericaDiesImaginationHuman BeingsAnimalCitiesWorstHolesCapitalistPrimitiveWoundedJungleSlumsInner CityWounded Animal Book:Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West Source: Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West
“Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.” ThinkingWayMayWarRealSelfFactsRealitySeemsAmericaChoicesEvilLiteratureImaginationDifferencesMoralFantasyBattleOffersEthicsRootsInstrumentsKillingMetaphorAlternativesGood And EvilRighteousHeroismImaginativeDoing GoodBrutalityExaminingSelf Righteous Author:Ursula K. Le Guin