“From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
“Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.”
— Ambrose Bierce, book The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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“Much of politics is about hating imaginary people.”
Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer
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Adonis Georgiadis (1972) Greek politician
As he said in the Greek parliament
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqZeImBRWjc
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American writer
"In a Manner that Must Shame God Himself"
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (1974)
Kurt Vonnegut book Mother Night
Mother Night (1961)
Context: "You hate America, don't you?" she said.
"That would be as silly as loving it," I said. "It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to the human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will."
Mau Piailug (1932–2010) Micronesian navigator from the Carolinian island of Satawal and a teacher of traditional, non-instrument wa…
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“You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.”
Richard Jeni (1957–2007) American comedian
Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States
Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2001)
Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Context: Walking has been one of the constellations in the starry sky of human culture, a constellation whose three stars are the body, the imagination, and the wide-open world, and though all three exist independently, it is the lines drawn between them—drawn by the act of walking for cultural purposes—that makes them a constellation. Constellations are not natural phenomena but cultural impositions; the lines drawn between stars are like paths worn by the imagination of those who have gone before. This constellation called walking has a history, the history trod out by all those poets and philosophers and insurrectionaries, by jaywalkers, streetwalkers, pilgrims, tourists, hikers, mountaineers, but whether it has a future depends on whether those connecting paths are traveled still.
“Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
There is no known basis to attribute this saying to Napoleon. It is found (unattributed) in a Usenet post from July 1999 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=soc.penpals/QIUrpkacWyE/FbCj7pij5WwJ. <br class="br">Misattributed