The Importance of Promises and Hope – Hermann Broch Quote

„What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.“

Hermann BrochQuote by Hermann Broch about the importance of promises and hope in the relationship between people and politics.
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Hermann Broch was an Austrian writer and intellectual, known for his philosophical novels and profound analyses of the human psyche.

This quote by Hermann Broch addresses the importance of promises and hope in the relationship between the people and politics.


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Hermann Broch quote about promises, people, and hope

Hermann Broch (1886–1951) was an important Austrian writer, best known for his novels "The Sleepwalkers" and "The Death of Virgil". His works are characterized by deep engagement with existential questions and societal upheavals. Broch was also a philosopher and social critic who fled Nazi persecution to the USA, where he continued his literary and intellectual work.

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"Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests." Albert Camus
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