“There are really only two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.”

My Christmas-New Year-Vacation-Aspiration-Prayers Part 26 (2003)

(1834-1, page 303) The Future. Re-used in Ethel Churchill (or The Two Brides) Vol. I, Chapter 31
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Source: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Variant: There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.

Source: The Hunger Games

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.