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I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

— Henry Rollins

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change.

— Ron Silver

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

— Winston Churchill

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

— Steve Jobs

I would say I'm an optimist by nature.

— Steve Tisch

I'm an optimist by nature.

— Jon Kyl

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

— Leymah Gbowee

I'm absolutely an optimist. It's the only way to get through life.

— Ricky Schroder

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

— Tim Berners-Lee

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.

— Brian Eno

✗Opposing Perspectives

I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.

— Hans Rosling