Dorothy Thompson Quotes

"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
(Related: Work, People, School)

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

"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
(Related: Women, Causes, Needs, Obvious, Vote, Washington, Years)

"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
(Related: Force, Liberty)

"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
(Related: Truth, Fear, Causes, Nothing)

"The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld."
- Dorothy Thompson
(Related: Faith, Idea, Force)

"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness."
- Dorothy Thompson
(Related: Fear, Mind)

"The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat."
- Dorothy Thompson
(Related: Instinct, Worship)

"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
(Related: Age, Nature, People, Energy, Old, Years)

"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."
- Dorothy Thompson
(Related: Peace, Order, Will)

"It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives."
- Dorothy Thompson
(Related: Fact, Liberty)

"Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?"
- Dorothy Thompson
(Related: Home, Men, Inequality, Nations)

"To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing."
- Dorothy Thompson
(Related: End, Feeling, Nothing)