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

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

- 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

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

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 will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

- Dorothy Thompson

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.

- Dorothy Thompson

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

- Dorothy Thompson

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 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

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

- 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

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

- Dorothy Thompson