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  • [Donald] Trump: he'd probably declare in Hiroshima that he'd nuke half of Asia if it would help the West to retain its control over the world. At least one would not harbor any false hopes.

    Half   World   Nukes  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • In restating this basic Christian doctrine, Benedict argues that it is not only for Christians alone. Others may not share the Christian faith in God, but the Christian proclamation that hope comes from within the person- in the realm of faith and conscience - is for them too. It offers an important protection against stifling and occasionally brutal social systems built on false hopes that come from outside the person, founded on political idealogies, economic models and social theories.

  • False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.

    "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.
  • Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2007). “The Federalist Papers”, p.257, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
  • To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

  • Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

    Death   Hope   Atheist  
    "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996 - ....
  • Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.

    Magic   Wish   False Hope  
    Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.94, Hachette UK
  • We offer such false hopes to people that every medical problem can be fixed even when you're starting to deal with an 80- or a 90-year-old body that is breaking down in multiple ways and doesn't have that resilience. And so it doesn't surprise me that someone who is completely unprepared for death may say, "Doc, do everything."

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • Evermore the Law must prepare the way for the gospel. To overlook this in instructing souls is almost certain to result in false hope, the introduction of a false standard of Christian experience, and to fill the Church with false converts... Time will make this plain.

    Christian   Law   Soul  
  • Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

    "You've Got Style : Your Personal Guide for Relating to Others‎". Book by Robert Rohm (p. 29), 2000.
  • False hope is worse than despair.

  • O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion all over again

    Believe   Fall   Heart  
    Rabindranath Tagore (1991). “Selected short stories”, Penguin Classics
  • What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.

    Fear   Silly   Men  
  • False hope is better than no hope at all.

  • False hope really makes you cynical.

  • There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

  • I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it’s that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it’s going to work. It’s astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks.

    Self   Years   Two  
    "And the Mountains Echoed". Book by Khaled Hosseini, May 21, 2013.
  • I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.

    Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
  • False hope is sometimes much worse and sometimes much better than no hope.

  • That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

    FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Jul 29, 2013
  • Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs - Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep!

    Blessed   Sheep   Satanic  
  • Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

    "Fictional character: Dr. Clarkson". "Downton Abbey (TV Series) Episode #5.6", www.imdb.com. 2014.
  • I like cinnamon rolls, but I don't always have time to make a pan. That's why I wish they would sell cinnamon roll incense. After all I'd rather light a stick and have my roommate wake up with false hopes.

    Funny   Humor   Light  
  • What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are some women who will never be beautiful, and Rizzoli was one of them.

    Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.140, Ballantine Books
  • Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.

    Girl   Zero   Kindness  
  • You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

    Interview with Andrea Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.
  • But as surely as the moon rises and the sun sets, depravity passes down through the ages, because there is always a gap between who we are and who we should be, and our parents, molested by regret, conceive us under the false hope that we will be better than them, and everything they do, every hug and blow, only makes certain that we never will be.

    Regret   Blow   Moon  
    Chris Adrian (2012). “The Children's Hospital”, p.241, Granta Books
  • For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

    Religious   Fiction   May  
  • Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

    Love   Freedom   Hate  
    "The Spirit of Liberty" (speech), New York, N.Y., 21 May 1944
  • If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

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