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Walter Benjamin 70
German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892… 1892–1940Related quotes
“Summits like those in Geneva promote hope. But hope without action is hopeless.”
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance (1985)
Context: Summits like those in Geneva promote hope. But hope without action is hopeless. Our enthusiasm for the positive spirit in these deliberations must not blind us to the absence of genuine progress toward disarmament. Twenty-four nuclear bombs are being added weekly to world arsenals.
No. 34
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
“Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.”
A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 234
“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, as per Mackay's The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, A Selection of Scientific Quotations (1977), p. 34.
Misattributed
As quoted in Mackay's The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, A Selection of Scientific Quotations (1977), p. 34
“Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.”
Source: Work Without Hope (1825), l. 9.
Context: Bloom, O ye Amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!
With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.
“The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.”
Source: Caddie Woodlawn's Family
Glenn Beck
Television
Fox News
2010-07-20
2010s, 2010