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.

Quote by Dorothy Thompson

Topics: Absence Quotes, Peace Quotes

The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to...

The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to...

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

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

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better...

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better...

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

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

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington...

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington...

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding...

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding...

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are...

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are...

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it...

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it...

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved...

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved...

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

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

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

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the...

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the...

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised...

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised...

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are...

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are...

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised...

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised...

Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in...

Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in...

It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is...

It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is...

If [newsmen] violate their promises of confidentiality, they may never again be able to operate...

If [newsmen] violate their promises of confidentiality, they may never again be able to operate...

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may...

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may...