Dorothy Thompson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Love #Inspirational #Motivational
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

#Taken #Reality #Political
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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Meaningful
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 #War #Ubuntu
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.
-- Dorothy Thompson

#Fear #Refusal #Persistent
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

#Inspirational #Peace #Ubuntu
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
-- Dorothy Thompson

#Ideas #Democracy #Overcoming
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

#Years #Organization #Needs
No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument - the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And nobody will ever say "Heil" to him, nor will they call him "Führer" or "Duce." But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of "O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!"
-- Dorothy Thompson

#Boys #People #Election
Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.
-- Dorothy Thompson

#Hate #Justice #Diversity
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

#Birthday #Strong #Tired
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
-- Dorothy Thompson

#Freedom #War #Patriotic
A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.
-- Dorothy Thompson

#Women #Needs #World
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.
-- Dorothy Thompson

#Circles #Mind #Elements
To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
-- Dorothy Thompson

#Feelings #Too Much #Ends
If you think there's a bogeyman - turn on the light.
-- Dorothy Thompson

#Thinking #Light #Turns
All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.
-- Dorothy Thompson

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

#Home #Equality #Men
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

#Selfish #Men #Giving
The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.
-- Dorothy Thompson

#Thinking #Doe #Different
The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
-- Dorothy Thompson

#Strong #Intuition #Worship
Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.
-- Dorothy Thompson

#Inspirational #Self #Lawlessness
After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.
-- Dorothy Thompson

#Fire #Earthquakes #Voice

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