Hope Quotes

In the darkest moments, hope is what remains. These words have helped people find light in the darkness.

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"Hope is not optimism but a sober confidence in redemption."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"The future is not yet determined."
Althusser, Louis
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"Hope is a discipline, not a feeling."
Althusser, Louis
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"Hope persists in the space between desire and despair."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Hope is not optimism but the refusal to despair."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"The redemption of the world depends on the redemption of human relations."
Buber, Martin
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"The future of humanity depends on the renewal of authentic relation."
Buber, Martin
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"Hope is the consolation prize for those without courage."
Bataille, Georges
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"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"Hope is the belief that tomorrow can be better than today."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"Hope without action is merely delusion."
Lukács, György
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"The future is not predetermined but shaped by human choices and struggles."
Lukács, György
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"Messianic hope is hope without the promise of historical fulfillment."
Levinas, Emmanuel
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"Hope is the refusal to accept that suffering has the final word."
Levinas, Emmanuel
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"Many matters which now seem impossible will become possible. But the time required may be longer than we wish."
Russell, Bertrand
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"Hope lies in the ability to imagine alternatives."
Marcuse, Herbert
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"The hope worth having is hope for what we cannot name or control."
Bataille, Georges
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"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"Redemption is possible through the development of critical consciousness and collective action."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"Hope is the last refuge of those who have nothing."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Hope lies in negative dialectics, not in positive affirmation."
Horkheimer, Max
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"We must recover the emancipatory potential of the Enlightenment."
Habermas, Jürgen
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"The universality of language guarantees that communication is always possible."
Habermas, Jürgen
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"Understanding between cultures is difficult but not impossible."
Habermas, Jürgen
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"The capacity for rational discourse is our best hope for peaceful coexistence."
Habermas, Jürgen
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"The margin is where alternative possibilities still exist"
Marcuse, Herbert
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"The gap between potential and reality is actively suppressed"
Marcuse, Herbert
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"The margin where alternatives exist is constantly being colonized"
Marcuse, Herbert
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"The working class contains within itself the potential to imagine and create a different world."
Althusser, Louis
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"False hope is sometimes more dangerous than honest despair."
Horkheimer, Max