Dorothy Thompson Quotes

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• Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
• Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives…
• 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.
• The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
• 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…
• There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.
• Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all…
• 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…
• To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
• It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
• Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
• The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
• The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
• Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
• There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
• Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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?

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