“Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first animate exertion, if dwelt upon too intently, will usurp the place of the stern reality; and, noble objects will be contemplated, not for their own inherent worth, but on account of the day-dreams they engender. Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.” IfsMenFirstsDreamRealityUsedHopeImaginationVisionObjectsHeroThirdsAccountsDuesNobleTriumphOne ManInherentLunaticExertionAbstinenceOpiates Author:James Fitzjames Stephen
“I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.” HopeReligiousWasteVoteAccountsVotingRelevantAffiliation Author:John F. Kennedy
“The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.” MenInspirationHopeEnemySourceFutureOptimismEssenceAccountsClaimsOptimisticAbandonOptimistVitalityResignedSource Of InspirationOptimism In LifeOptimistic LifeOptimism And Hope Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.” ScienceHopeLogicAccountsGenuine Author:Francis Bacon
“No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].” ScienceHopeEnergySubjectsAccountsMixturesHopes And FearsAtomic Energy Author:Edward Victor Appleton
“Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes” WarPoliticalHopePoliticsFearViolenceMassResourcesAccountsAntiwarExpendituresPolitical History Book:Politics as Symbolic Action: Mass Arousal and Quiescence Source: Politics as Symbolic Action: Mass Arousal and Quiescence
“For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.” BelieveScienceHopeBeliefEssenceAccountsBasesRefusal Author:Barrington Moore, Jr.