6 Quotes By 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 on age

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

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson on fear

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 on nature

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

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 on peace