The most destructive element in the huma... by Dorothy Thompson | We Heart Quotes

Fear Mind

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

- Dorothy Thompson

Other quotes by Dorothy Thompson

Peace Will

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

- Dorothy Thompson

Fact

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

- Dorothy Thompson

Violence 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

Instinct

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

- Dorothy Thompson

Truth Nothing

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

Home Men

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

- Dorothy Thompson

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