“There are really only two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.”
Variant: There are only really two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.
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“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”
Variant: There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
“There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.”
from Postscript on the Societies of Control
Signs of Change (1888), How We Live And How We Might Live
Context: Fear and Hope — those are the names of the two great passions which rule the race of man, and with which revolutionists have to deal; to give hope to the many oppressed and fear to the few oppressors, that is our business; if we do the first and give hope to the many, the few must be frightened by their hope; otherwise we do not want to frighten them; it is not revenge we want for poor people, but happiness; indeed, what revenge can be taken for all the thousands of years of the sufferings of the poor?
Source: On the sociology of Islam: lectures. (1979), p. 97; partly cited in: John L. Esposito (1996) Islam and Democracy. p. 25.