# Quote — Rebecca Solnit, Hope In The Dark

> Inside the word "emergency" is "emerge"; from an emergency new things come forth. The old certainties are crumbling fast, but danger and possibility are sisters. (p12)

- 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/inside-the-word

## 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)