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Dorothy Thompson on Veterans Day

1893–1961 United States

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4 quotes

Patriotism is the cheapest form of self-exaltation.

I Saw Hitler (1932)

All my life I have been a pacifist. All my life I have hated war and loved peace.

Dorothy Thompson's Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)

It does not matter how 'courageous' a writer may be. Courage becomes useless, for a courageous writer who is not published is not a writer at all.

They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war — as though the absence of war was the same as peace.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dorothy Thompson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.