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. ”

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

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. ”

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

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. ”

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

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? ”