# Quote — Rebecca Solnit, Hope In The Dark

> I believe in hope as an act of defiance, or rather as the foundation for an ongoing series of acts of defiance, those acts necessary to bring about some of what we hope for while we live by principle in the meantime. There is no alternative, except surrender. And surrender not only abandons the future, it abandons the soul. (p137)

- 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)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-solnit/hope-in-the-dark/i-believe-in-hope

## 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)