31 ordspråk av Dorothy Thompson

Dorothy Thompson

Dorothy Thompson

Dorothy Thompson föddes den 9 juli 1894 och dog den 30 januar 1961 - US writer
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Det är inte själva friheten utan det sätt som friheten utövas på som i slutänden avgör om friheten själv skall överleva.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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