# Quote — Rebecca Solnit, Hope In The Dark

> ...hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable. (p5)

- Author: [Rebecca Solnit](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-solnit.md)
- Book: [Hope In The Dark](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-solnit/hope-in-the-dark.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rebecca_Solnit#Hope_in_the_Dark:_The_Untold_History_of_People_Power_(2004)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-solnit/hope-in-the-dark/hope-is-not

## More from this book

> Most of us would say, if asked, that we live in a capitalist society, but vast amounts of how we live our everyday lives - our interactions with and commitments to family lives, friendships, avocations, membership in social, spiritual and political organizations-are in essence noncapitalist or even anticapitalist, full of things we do for free, out of love, and on principle.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-solnit/hope-in-the-dark/most-of-us-would.md)

> A better world, yes; a perfect world, never. (p82)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-solnit/hope-in-the-dark/a-better-world.md)

> Violence is the power of the state; imagination and non-violence the power of civil society.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-solnit/hope-in-the-dark/violence-is-the.md)