Quotes of Dorothy Thompson - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ 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

“ Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ 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 its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ 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 its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ 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

“ The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear — a disastrous circle. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ 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

“ The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ 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

“ The house was a dump. There was no plumbing, no electricity, no bathrooms. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear — a disastrous circle. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ 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

“ 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

“ The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear — a disastrous circle. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ 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

“ 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

“ The house was a dump. There was no plumbing, no electricity, no bathrooms. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ 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

“ Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men? ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear — a disastrous circle. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men? ”

- Dorothy Thompson
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