Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
— Dorothy Thompson
Famous Quotes
Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
— Dorothy Thompson
Famous Quotes
To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
What was once Sinclair Lewis is buried in no ground. Even in life he was fully alive only in his writing. He lives in public libraries from Maine to California, in worn copies in the bookshelves of women from small towns who, in their girlhood, imagined themselves as Carol Kennicotts, and of medical men who, as youths, were inspired by Martin Arrowsmith.
— Dorothy Thompson
Literature
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
— Dorothy Thompson
Freedom
Private shops [in Soviet Russia]. . . are taxed higher than co-operatives, are granted less favorable concessions, and enjoy a grudging legality. Nevertheless, their owners often make a great deal of money. The only explanation for it is the shortage of goods and the hunger for them. When one asks for the explanation of such a phenomenon in an agricultural country one is told: The government is exporting grain, the milk or egg price is too low and the peasants are holding back.
— Dorothy Thompson
Business
In these ten years urban Russia having destroyed, exiled, or reduced to the most abject misery all representatives of that previous civilization, is without most bourgeoisie amenities.
— Dorothy Thompson
History
The hotels are entirely run by the Moscow Soviet, which seems to have picked its employees rather for their political reliability than for their experience or cleverness at hotel management.
— Dorothy Thompson
Politics
Indeed, gaiety is singularly lacking everywhere in Russia. What is intense and joyful goes into pioneer work and not into amusement. Only in the company of young communists and artists can one find stimulation.
— Dorothy Thompson
Society