Dorothy Thompson Quotes

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.

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

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.

The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

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?

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

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

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

If you think there’s a bogeyman – turn on the light.

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

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.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.