
“No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.”
Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Source: The Indigo Spell
“No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.”
Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
Penguin Books 2015 edition ISBN 978-0-241-97289-2, page 45.
No Place to Hide (2014)
Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe (2013)
2004, Democratic National Convention speech (July 2004)
Context: In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? I'm not talking about blind optimism here... No, I'm talking about something more substantial. It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs; the hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores; the hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta; the hope of a millworker's son who dares to defy the odds; the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too. Hope in the face of difficulty, hope in the face of uncertainty, the audacity of hope: In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation, a belief in things not seen, a belief that there are better days ahead.
Source: No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
Jeder hat zunächst den Gottesglauben, den man ihm aufgeschwatzt hat; aber allmählich hat er den, den er verdient.
Bissige Aphorismen, Rowohlt 1994, ISBN 3-499-22061-X, S. 14