Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.
Dorothy ThompsonThe 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?
Dorothy ThompsonThe only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
Dorothy ThompsonPeace 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 ThompsonCourage, it would seem, 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