Quotes from Dorothy Thompson

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

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

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

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

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

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 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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.