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

#life #peace #life

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

#born #distribute #does #energy #equally

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

— Dorothy Thompson

#creates #destructive #element #fear #human

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

— Dorothy Thompson

#advocate #good-will #home #inequality #men

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

— Dorothy Thompson

#exercised #fact #itself #liberty #survives

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

— Dorothy Thompson

#begin #live #longer #only

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

— Dorothy Thompson

#created #maintained #never #order #passivity

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

— Dorothy Thompson

#feeling #felt #much #nothing #too

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

— Dorothy Thompson

#hardly #instinct #less #strong #than

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

— Dorothy Thompson

#better #better idea #faith #fearlessly #force