Dorothy Thompson Quotes

• Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace

• 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

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Freedom

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

  Dorothy Thompson

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Freedom

• 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

  Topics in Age, Funny

• The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Topics in Fear

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

  Dorothy Thompson

  Topics in Democracy, Ideals

  Tags in Faith, Ideas

• Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faith, Ignorance

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

  Dorothy Thompson

  Topics in Fear, Life

  Tags in Courage

• 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

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Thinking, Logic

• 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

  Topics in Future, Life

  Tags in Hope, Mystery, Meaning

• 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

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

  Dorothy Thompson

  Topics in Fear, Truth

  Tags in Hope

• 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

  Topics in Fear, Truth

  Tags in Reason

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War

• A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women

• The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Tags in Worship

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Absence

Dorothy Thompson (17)

Birth:	9th July, 1893
Death:	30th January, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Radio Personality

About

Dorothy Thompson was born in Lancaster, New York. She was an American journalist and radio broadcaster, who in 1939 was recognized by Time magazine as the second most influential woman in America next to Eleanor Roosevelt. She is notable as the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 and as one of the few women news commentators on radio during the 1930s. She is regarded by some as the "First Lady of American Journalism." She studied politics and economics and graduated with a degree in 1914.

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