Dorothy Thompson Quotes
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~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war was the same as peace.
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
Courage ... is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life, with all its sorrows, is good; that everything is meaningful, even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
They put us up in a hotel and told us we can only stay up to three days. That was it,
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle.
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
Courage is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that th
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
I don't know where we would be without our faith,
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
There is nothing more demoralizing than sudden, overwhelming disillusionment
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
It was scary. By the time the fire department got here, the whole house was in flames,
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote
