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“I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.”

World Self Political Imagination Saws Growing Military Information Amount Economics Complexes Rate Censorship Publishing Collecting Military Industrial Complex Self Censorship

Author:Julian Assange

“Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.”

Ifs Men Believe Heart Art War Truth Lying Born Imagination Church Military Honesty Deeds Guides Titles Idols Altars

Book:Five speeches delivered by the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., 1860-1864. Edited, with a preface, by a member of the University of Oxford [i.e. the Hon. Frederick Lygon, afterwards Earl Beauchamp].

Source: Five speeches delivered by the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., 1860-1864. Edited, with a preface, by a member of the University of Oxford [i.e. the Hon. Frederick Lygon, afterwards Earl Beauchamp].

“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.”

Life War Age Death Imagination Ability Learning Military Excellence Soldier Acquire Cowardice Panic Distinguished Greatest Gifts

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion. Fifty years on, I don't associate the book with anything that ever happened to me, save for one wordless encounter at London airport when a worn-out, middle-aged military kind of man in a stained raincoat slammed a handful of mixed foreign change on to the bar and in gritty Irish accents ordered himself as much Scotch as it would buy. In that moment, Alec Leamas was born. Or so my memory, not always a reliable informant, tells me.”

“The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.”

Source: The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays

“Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a task, appeals to the imagination. The military is an engineering profession.”

Want Imagination Taken Economic Military Tasks Revenge Profession Scales Appeals Massive Engineering Domination

Book:Time and materials: poems, 1997-2005

Source: Time and materials: poems, 1997-2005

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”

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