Dorothy Thompson Quotes & Sayings
14 most famous Dorothy Thompson quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She was an American journalist who passed away on 31 January, 1961.
“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”
“It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.”
“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.”
“Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.”
“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.”
“The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.”
“There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.”
“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 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?”
“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.”
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