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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation … Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
Bernard Baruch1870–1965Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)
- War & Peace
Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it’s not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans.
Gene Roddenberry1921–1991Interview (20 September 1988), included in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, DVD 7, “Mission Logs: Year Five”, “A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry”, 0:26:09)
- Television
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Golda Meir1898–1978The Observer (29 December 1974)
Plenty of hope — for God — no end of hope — only not for us.
Franz Kafka1883–1924Conversation with Max Brod (28 February 1920), as reported in Max Brod, Franz Kafka: A Biography
- God
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
W. E. B. Du Bois1868–1963Last message to the world (written 1957); read at his funeral (1963)
- Life & Death
Here, in this Assembly, reposes the best — perhaps the last — hope for the peaceful survival of mankind.
Haile Selassie1892–1975Address to the United Nations (1963)
- War & Peace
The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Peter Ustinov1921–2004BBC obituary (2004)
To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity.
Walt Disney1901–1966The Quotable Walt Disney (2001)
- Youth
I would like to see us overcome our tribal divisions and begin to think and act as if we were one family. That would be real globalisation…
Arthur C. Clarke1917–200890th Birthday Reflections (2007)
I would be the happiest man if the gloomy winter of mankind were to give way to a shaft of sunlight and to coloured flowers. The world is very beautiful.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto1928–1979Letter to his daughter (1978), p. 78—79
- Beauty
I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past’s fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.
Howard Zinn1922–2010A People’s History of the United States (1980; 2003), Ch. 1
- History
The cynic says “blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.” I say “blessed is he who expecteth everything, for he can’t always be disappointed.”
Tallulah Bankhead1902–1968“I want everything” in What I Want from Life (1934) edited by Edmund George Cousins, p. 108
As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the one thing left to us in a bad time.
E. B. White1899–1985Letter to M. Nadeau (30 March 1973)
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide ‘ll turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896Oldtown Folks (1869), Ch. 39
- Motivation & Goals
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them.
Jane Addams1860–1935Peace and Bread in Time of War (1922), Chapter 7: Personal Reactions During War
- Courage