Dorothy Thompson Quotes

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Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
- Dorothy Thompson

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They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war as though the absence of war was the same as peace.
- Dorothy Thompson

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Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.
- Dorothy Thompson

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Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
- Dorothy Thompson

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

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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

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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

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

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

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