"Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair"

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Source : Richard John Neuhaus (2001). “The Best of "The Public Square".: Book two”, p.9, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Richard John Neuhaus

#Christian Quotes #Hands Quotes #Optimism Quotes

“That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade in that beauty.”
“It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.”
“Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.”
“I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.”

Source : "If This Is a Man". Book by Primo Levi, 1947.
“The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.”

Source : Ellen Key (2016). “The century of the child”, p.32, Ellen Key
“Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.”
“I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.”

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