Quotes from Dorothy Thompson

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.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

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 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.

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

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.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear.

When liberty is taken away by force, it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished by default it can never be recovered.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

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

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

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

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

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

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.