“Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.” WarStatesImagineDangerDemandIdealsAssumingInternationalDarePenniesSuperfluousArmament Author:Ludwig Quidde
“It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.” WayDoeHardStatesGovernmentLastsUnitedBehindsUnited StatesImagineWallExtremesDecadesSignificanceSecrecyLeaksSecretive Author:Glenn Greenwald
“Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy. It's unthinkable. But that's patently the thought process Gordon Brown (or his spin doctor) went through before the Prime Minister appeared on the world stage in Beijing without his suit and tie.” PeopleThinkingWorldStatesProcessImagineStageDoctorsSuitsOccasionsMinistersQueensTiesBrownPrimePrime MinisterTrainersUnthinkableLike HerThought ProcessBeijingTiarasSuits And TiesSpin Doctors Author:Peter York
“In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.” StatesNationsDifficultImagineBreadVegetables Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
“I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart. Hope is the feeling that life and work have a meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. Life without hope is an empty, boring, and useless life. I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. I am thankful to God for this gift. It is as big as life itself.” IfsWorldWellsHeartEndsStatesFeelingsBigsHopeImagineMy HeartEmptyStriveBoringUselessNot SureSurroundImagine ThatOptimistPessimistWithout HopeI Am ThankfulThankful To GodUseless Life Author:Vaclav Havel
“Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion—the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.” PeopleIfsWayHas BeensCountryStatesGovernmentLeftStarsInterestUnitedSecretLibertyEnemyUnited StatesImagineFashionSurrenderCorporationsOfficialsSouthernChamberInvasionCountyPrecipiceMultinationalsAuctionsMultinational Corporations Book:Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession Source: Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession
“The tears are invisible. I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet earth.” StatesEarthJobsImagineTearsPlanetsDisasterInvisiblePanicPlanet Earth Author:Maira Kalman
“I can't imagine what it would be to be president when the United States at war with yourself. People killing each other here in America on a massive basis. Just can't imagine what it would be.” PeopleI CanWarStatesWould BeAmericaPresidentUnitedUnited StatesImagineBasesKillingMassiveKilling Each OtherWar With Yourself Author:George W. Bush
“Forgetfulness, the unhistorical, is ... the atmosphere, in which alone life can come into being. In order to understand it, let us imagine a youth who is seized with a passion for a woman, or a man who is swayed by a passion for his work. In both cases what lies behind them has ceased to exist and yet this state (the most unhistorical that can be imagined) is that in which every action, every great deed is conceived and accomplished.” MenStatesActionLyingOrderPassionBehindsCasesImagineYouthDeedsAtmosphereAccomplishedForgetfulnessAlone Life Author:Georg Brandes
“If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of the blue-state lefties could imagine. First, that madman Bush wins, and now this news. How depressing.” IfsFirstsMeanStatesLife IsWinningLeftNumbersImagineNewsBlueInternalsEnginesDepressingMadmenCombustionLefties Author:Brock Yates
“It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.” KindImportantIdeasStatesCertainChoicesCoursesDecisionAnimalImagineStyleParticularExpressionHairMassBasesDemocraticLeavingCommandPropagandaVotingControlledVotersImagine ThatPreferenceCircusSuitableFacialOratoryBe EncouragedImportant DecisionsImplantsTruismFacial Expression Author:Revilo P. Oliver