Dorothy Thompson > Quotes

“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

“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

“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”
― Dorothy Thompson

“There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.”
― Dorothy Thompson

“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

“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict”
― Dorothy Thompson

“The most destructive element in the human mind is fear.”
― dorothy thompson

“When liberty is taken away by force, it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished by default it can never be recovered.”
― Dorothy Thompson

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

“Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. They may be the gentle philosopher whose name is in the Blue Book, or Bill from City College to whom democracy gave a chance to design airplanes—you’ll never make Nazis out of them. But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.

Believe me, nice people don’t go Nazi. Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them.

Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi.”
― Dorothy Thompson, Who Goes Nazi?

“His body is vigorous. His mind is childish. His soul has been almost completely neglected.”
― Dorothy Thompson, Who Goes Nazi?

“He has been fed vitamins and filled with energies that are beyond the capacity of his intellect to discipline. He has been treated to forms of education which have released him from inhibitions. His body is vigorous. His mind is childish. His soul has been almost completely neglected.”
― Dorothy Thompson, Who Goes Nazi?

“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live”
― Dorothy Thompson