Daily Inspiration Quote by Robin Day

Day’s sentence is engineered to sound mild while smuggling in an indictment. “I think and hope” is the journalist’s equivalent of a raised eyebrow: he can’t claim certainty, but he can register alarm without tipping into sermonizing. The line’s restraint is the point. It signals a broadcaster trained to stay inside the boundaries of public reason, even when the subject - “our future” - begs for urgency.

The key move is the quiet vote of confidence in “far more people aware.” It’s reassurance with a conditional clause attached. Day implies a fear that awareness is thin, that complacency is the default setting, and that the public conversation is lagging behind the stakes. By framing it as a hopeful observation rather than a demand, he’s trying to make responsibility feel mainstream rather than fringe: if “far more people” already get it, then you, listener, should too. Social pressure, but politely applied.

Context matters. Day came up in postwar Britain, a period defined by institutional rebuilding, long planning horizons, and faith in expertise, then spent the later decades of his career watching that consensus fray under economic shocks, political polarization, and the rise of short-term media cycles. Read in that light, “look after our future” isn’t a vague plea; it’s a rebuke of governance-by-headline and a reminder that democracy has to be able to think past the next news bulletin.