Dorothy Thompson Quotations

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

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.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings...Fear [False Evidence Appearing Real] grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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?

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

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

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

I don't know where we would be without our faith,

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?

We actually purchased those real tall tables and chairs like you see at Starbucks.

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.

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

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 [of] 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!'

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

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

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.

Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.

After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.

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.

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.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.

The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country [Mexico] is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army.

If you think there's a bogeyman - turn on the light.

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.

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.

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

We picked out a modular home in Williamstown for free. We just have to provide the amount of money needed to get it from there to here,

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 th

We have made significant progress since listing to build our forward power sales and expect to deliver significant cash distributions during 2006.

There is nothing more demoralizing than sudden, overwhelming disillusionment

They put us up in a hotel and told us we can only stay up to three days. That was it,

Romancing the Soul--True Stories of Soul Mates from Around the World and Beyond.

This is so totally exciting. The whole production end of it was such a learning experience. We plan on writing more e-books and giving them away for free in the near future.

In life, if we have hope in God, it makes us happy. Jesus is all that we need,

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

It was scary. By the time the fire department got here, the whole house was in flames,

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.