Max Eastman: Quotes about hope

Max Eastman was American activist. Explore interesting quotes on hope.

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“I still think the worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.”

Source: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 57

“It was natural that idealistic people who had ceased to believe in heaven should think up some bright hope for humanity on earth. That, I think, more than any objection to "capitalism", accounts for the spread of the socialist dream, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries.”

Source: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 45

“Stalinism is worse than fascism, more ruthless, barbarous, unjust, immoral, anti-democratic, unredeemed by any hope or scruple, ... better described as superfascist.”

Source: Stalin's Russia and the Crisis in Socialism (1940), p. 82