"The only force that can overcome an idea……" — Dorothy Thompson
"The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld."
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Dorothy Thompson
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19 Quotes by Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Thompson has 19 quotes on this site.
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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
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Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to…
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When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default…
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Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes;…
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There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.
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Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm…
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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy,…
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To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
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It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty…
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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
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The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
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The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
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