The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.”
“Much of politics is about hating imaginary people.”
[Twitter, 8 August 2021, https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1424352326177853442]
Miscellaneous
As he said in the Greek parliament
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqZeImBRWjc
"In a Manner that Must Shame God Himself"
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (1974)
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."
From Baybayan, Chad Kalepa (2010-07-29). "Piailug's greatest lesson is that we are a single people". Honolulu Star-Advertiser
The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up (2012)
“You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.”
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.”
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.
Misattributed
