Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
¶ (Attributed)
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Václav Havel (b. 1936) Czech poet, politician
Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy, will function properly.
¶ Summer Meditations, "Politics, Morality, and Civility" (tr. Paul Wilson) (1991)
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