Rebecca Solnit, Hope In The Dark Quotes

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the problems of the present moment even before that way is found or followed.

The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible, but against their ideas of perfection...

I wonder sometimes what would happen if victory was imagined not just as the elimination of evil but the establishment of good...