Dorothy Thompson Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Dorothy Thompson:

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
~Dorothy Thompson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dorothy-thompson-quotes/#840e4fb1

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
~Dorothy Thompson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dorothy-thompson-quotes/#4f100925

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dorothy-thompson-quotes/#31121bb9

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 seventy.
~Dorothy Thompson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dorothy-thompson-quotes/#917b210c

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dorothy-thompson-quotes/#c05c9e72

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
~Dorothy Thompson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dorothy-thompson-quotes/#066c79ed

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
~Dorothy Thompson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dorothy-thompson-quotes/#a760398b

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
~Dorothy Thompson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dorothy-thompson-quotes/#148f6858

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
~Dorothy Thompson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dorothy-thompson-quotes/#cba1f5ae

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
~Dorothy Thompson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dorothy-thompson-quotes/#7a1c755a

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dorothy-thompson-quotes/#624311f5

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dorothy-thompson-quotes/#2b6aec7e

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dorothy-thompson-quotes/#5bd4840c

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
~Dorothy Thompson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dorothy-thompson-quotes/#7657545d

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