“I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.”
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Optimistic Quotes — page 99 of 204
“Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.”
“A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.”
“Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.”
“We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.”
“It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make a difference because it seemed like such a lot of people so, yes I would have to say that it has done.”
“I just believe that if I work hard and do well, who knows what the future holds?”
“There tends to be this comfortable assumption that nuclear weapons won't be used, but I don't think that's warranted, and I think we should seize the opportunity of this time of stability and cooperation and move towards global elimination of nuclear weapons as indeed people like Henry Kissinger, and William Perry, former Secretary of Defense under Clinton, and Sam Nunn, former Senator, and George Schultz, former Undersecretary of State for Ronald Reagan. All of them recently called for achievement of a nuclear weapon-free world.”
“Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.”
“Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing nations to throw off the yoke of poverty.”
“Israel was not created in order to disappear. Israel will endure and flourish.”
“Positive minds full of faith and hope produce positive lives.”
“The earth does not need new continents, but new men.”
“That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.”
“Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.”
“The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.”
“Faith is stronger than so-called reality.”
“An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed”
“Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.”
“The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.”