“The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness aggressiveness engenders hostility hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle.”
Dorothy Thompson“Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.”
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“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“Hate smolders and eventually destroys not the hated but the hater.”
Dorothy Thompson“The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness aggressiveness engenders hostility hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle.”
Dorothy Thompson“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 there is always tomorrow.”
Dorothy Thompson