“Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.” DoeProblemPoliticalImaginationLevelsGoneImagineSeeingRacismLet MeImagine ThatArena Author:Phylicia Rashad
“As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval.” KnowsEndsPoliticalImagineMinistersExpertsApprovalMinistryStamps Author:Jeroen Dijsselbloem
“In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or it is expressed only in a sublimated and indirect way, through the mediation of some religious imagine in the love of whom the members unite and whose all-embracing love they are supposed to imitate in their attitude towards each other. It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.” WayEndsPoliticalEnergyChurchReligiousLevelsAttitudeImagineGroupsMembersArmyPrimariesManifestationOrganizedUnconsciousFascistsSuitableIndirectMediationEmbracing Love Author:Theodor Adorno
“Nowadays, to say that we are clever animals is not to say something philosophical and pessimistic but something political and hopeful - namely, if we can work together, we can make ourselves into whatever we are clever and courageous enough to imagine ourselves becoming. This is to set aside Kant's question "What is man?" and to substitute the question "What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?” IfsMenWorldEnoughTogetherPoliticalAnimalImagineBecomingPhilosophicalCleverHopefulWorking TogetherCourageousSubstitutesGrandchildrenPessimisticTogether We CanGreat Grandchildren Book:Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers Source: Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers
“I can't imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for a role and is being denied a role because of their political views. I don't think that's the way Hollywood works. We're not living in an era of blacklisting.” ThinkingWayTryingI CanPoliticalActorsViewsRolesImagineSittingHollywoodErasDeniedImagine ThatQualifiedSitting AroundPolitical View Author:Kevin Spacey
“We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the courts own legitimacy and authority.” ThinkingPoliticalActorsJusticeDecisionStruggleImagineAuthorityCourtMythSupremeBranchesImagine ThatSupreme CourtUmpiresLegitimacy Author:Noah Feldman
“Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.” GivingWellsArtActionPoliticalDesirePoliticsProcessCreativeImagineExpressionShapesDrawingCreative ProcessPolitical Action Author:Madeleine M. Kunin
“The different political systems, religions and social habits demonstrate that the same brain can be tuned in different manners. But the tuning capacity is limited. We can never feel as a jaguar, for example. We can imagine a man who believes or who intends to be a jaguar, but to intend is not the same as to be. We can have other ideologies, but we will continue restricted by the nature of our brain and of our body.” MenFeelsBelieveDifferentBodyPoliticalSocialBrainImagineExampleHabitCapacityIdeologyMannersPolitical SystemsTuningJaguars Author:Rodolfo Llinas
“If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit of course with French language. If I prefer to shoot in my own language, it is to play with my language, to play in my Paris, and I have complete freedom in France. It's so amazing. If American directors could imagine how free I am, they would have asked for political asylum immediately.” IfsWantPlayPoliticalCoursesLanguageMy OwnAudienceImagineHugeDirectorsLimitsFranceParisAsylumsAmerican MovieComplete FreedomFrench LanguageFrench Movies Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.” LifeMayPoliticalPoliticsImaginationOur LivesImagineComplexesCongressFrustrating Author:Cullen Hightower
“To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.” PeopleKnowsWayPoliticalSocialSecretEnvironmentImagineReasoningConspiracyPolitical LifeSecret SocietyPolitical Environment Author:Umberto Eco
“Imagine me going around with a pot belly. It would mean political ruin.” MeanPoliticalImagineRuinsPotBelly Author:Adolf Hitler
“Imagine my surprise when it turned out the main thing that I was qualified for was to get another degree and teach Political Science to other people, who would, in turn, teach it to other people! This wasn't higher education, this was Amway with a football team!” PeoplePoliticalTurnsPoliticsTeachImagineTeamFootballHigherDegreesSurpriseQualifiedPolitical ScienceHigher EducationFootball TeamAmway Author:Richard Jeni
“George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.” PoliticalImagineGeniusGang Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I wouldn't even say "Imagine" is political. I think it's…more just sort of declaration of humanity. I don't find his political songs to be the ones that I go home and listen to. And I would say that of any artist. They're not the ones that interest…” ThinkingHomePoliticalArtistSongHumanityInterestImagineDeclaration Author:Sean Lennon
“Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively, acting as part of mass-movements, that it's become hard for us to imagine a form of politics that is based on a high degree of introspection and self-examination.” ThinkingSelfHardFormPoliticalTermActingImagineMovementBuddhismDegreesMassIntrospectionExaminationSelf-examination Author:Pankaj Mishra
“Would I sacrifice a friendship to take a step forward in my political career? Thus far in my political career, I have been spared from having to make such a decision, thank God. And I can't imagine what it must be like.” Has BeensI CanPoliticalDecisionStepsCareersImagineSacrificeThank GodSteps Forward Author:Martin Schulz
“I worshipped guys like Bill Maher, Jay Leno, and Jerry Seinfeld, and was doing my variation of that. But as a young person with no political point of view or life experience, it was as funny as you can imagine.” PersonsYoungPoliticalGuyViewsImagineBillsPoint Of ViewLife ExperienceVariationJerry Author:Judd Apatow
“It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun.” ThinkingWorldLooksWould BeTodayPastPoliticalFunImagineCenturyCoupleMachinesScientistPhilosopherBe GoodWorld TodayTime MachineHobbesGood FunGreat PhilosophersMalthus Author:Scott D. Anthony