Dorothy Thompson Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Dorothy Thompson:

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

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?

Dorothy Thompson

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

Dorothy Thompson

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

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

Dorothy Thompson

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

Dorothy Thompson

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

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

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

Dorothy Thompson

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

Dorothy Thompson

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

Dorothy Thompson

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?

Dorothy Thompson

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

Dorothy Thompson