“This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.”
Martin Firrell (1963) British artist and activist
"The Question Mark Inside" (2008)
“Children are really desperate to see the world as pleasing; and their desperateness is part of a wise hope.”
Self and World (1957)
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Jeffrey D. Sachs (1954) American economist
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“No circumstance is ever so desperate that one cannot nurture some spark of hope.”
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
Non è mai alcuna cosa sì disperata, che non vi sia qualche via da poterne sperare.
Act I, scene i
The Mandrake (1524)
“It all seemed like madness, but was madness anything other than desperation blended with hope?”
Lawrence M. Schoen (1959) American writer and klingonist
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 29, “Choice and Sacrifice” (p. 270)
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)
Context: Any man who sees Europe now must realize that victory in a great war is not something you win once and for all, like victory in a ball game. Victory in a great war is something that must be won and kept won. It can be lost after you have won it — if you are careless or negligent or indifferent.
Europe today is hungry. I am not talking about Germans. I am talking about the people of the countries which were overrun and devastated by the Germans, and particularly about the people of Western Europe. Many of them lack clothes and fuel and tools and shelter and raw materials. They lack the means to restore their cities and their factories.
As the winter comes on, the distress will increase. Unless we do what we can to help, we may lose next winter what we won at such terrible cost last spring. Desperate men are liable to destroy the structure of their society to find in the wreckage some substitute for hope. If we let Europe go cold and hungry, we may lose some of the foundations of order on which the hope for worldwide peace must rest.
We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.
“All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”
Sean O`Casey (1880–1964) Irish writer
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
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“There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism.”
Richard Dawkins book The Blind Watchmaker
Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 9 “Puncturing Punctuationism” (p. 250)