Word: hopelessness
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...indoctrinates the youth of the country only with a desire to see the defects of our existing social order, is there not a danger that dissatisfaction will become so great that a spirit of hopeless futility will prevail? There comes a point when a man can become so convinced of the weakness of a structure that he is no longer interested in a sacrifice to preserve the foundation on which it rests...
...They have felt the wave of the future and they have leapt upon it. The evils we deplore in these systems are not in themselves the future; they are scum on the wave of the future." To her it was futile for the U. S. to get into "a hopeless 'crusade' to save civilization." The task of the U. S. was peaceful reformation at home...
Unwritten conclusions of Gem of the Prairie: 1) though the battle against sin always seems most hopeless at the present, the good old days were far worse; 2) the Capone era in Chicago was less a product of Prohibition than the natural flowering of a great heritage...
Similarly fixed is Dr. Vedanayakam Samuel Azariah, Anglican Bishop of Dornakal. His diocese is the fastest-growing in the world for he touches India's untouchables. Finding their lot hopeless under the Brahmans, these outcasts have professed Christianity at the rate of 10,000 a year, as fast as the clergy could instruct them. Most of the money for this and other missionary work in India comes from the great British missionary boards-one of which, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, sent out such famed 18th-Century missionaries to the U. S. as Methodist John Wesley...
...human dignity by not sticking together, we will start our own counterrevolution to unite the world." He had been one of the last survivors in a trench at Verdun. " 'Since that day,' the little grey-haired diplomat said, 'I have had my motto: . . . There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them...