Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Dorothy Thompson (American Journalist, Writer)

Dorothy Celene Thompson (1893–1961) was an American journalist, broadcaster, and author known for her bold political and international perspectives. A staunch advocate for democracy, civil rights, and women’s rights, she was a prominent voice in 20th-century journalism. Her syndicated column reached readers nationwide, addressing fascism, American politics, and wartime issues.

Born in Lancaster, New York, Thompson studied at Syracuse University before beginning her journalism career. She was among the first women to gain prominence as a foreign correspondent, covering Adolf Hitler’s rise and the Nazi regime in Germany during the 1930s.

Her most notable role began in 1931 as the Berlin correspondent for The New York Evening Post. Her reporting on Germany’s political climate established her as an influential voice in international journalism. In 1934, Hitler’s government expelled her for her critical coverage, cementing her reputation as a courageous journalist.

Thompson was also a prolific author. I Saw Hitler (1941) provided firsthand insights into Hitler’s rise and Nazi ideology. The Courage to Be (1942,) a collection of essays, examined human nature, freedom, and the political challenges of the 20th century.

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And only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous; to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.
—Dorothy Thompson
Topics: Fear, Living, Courage, Time

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.
—Dorothy Thompson
Topics: Genius

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

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 Thompson
Topics: Birds

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
—Dorothy Thompson
Topics: Integrity

All great art … creates in the beholder not self-satisfaction but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.
—Dorothy Thompson
Topics: Art

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

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
Topics: Courage

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
Topics: Conflict

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