"[The Communists] objective is not to secure agreements or compromises, but to use the tribunes of governments for disruptive agitation, and destroy the representative system from within… Any Communist, sitting in any bourgeoisie government, represents only the Communist International."
Dorothy Celene Thompson was an American journalist and radio broadcaster. She was the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany, in 1934, and was one of the few women news commentators broadcasting on radio during the 1930s. Thompson is regarded by some as the "First Lady of American Journalism" and was recognized by Time magazine in 1939 as equal in influence to Eleanor Roosevelt
Dorothy Celene Thompson was an American journalist and radio broadcaster. She was the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany, in 1934, and was one of the few women news commentators broadcasting on radio during the 1930s. Thompson is regarded by some as the "First Lady of American Journalism" and was recognized by Time magazine in 1939 as equal in influence to Eleanor Roosevelt
View all quotes by Dorothy Thompson"The contribution of Communism to the nihilism of democratic despair has been to shear humanism off democracy, to reduce the concept of democracy to crass materialism, to interpret life in terms of bread alone. The Nazis, as anti-humanistic as the Communists, have elevated the Communist Have-Not doctrine into a war cry for the Have-Not states."
"The Vatican newspaper in Rome, Osservatore Romano, said of National Socialism, It is the most inhumane of all heresies. Hitler is true to his role of anti-Christ."
"Fascism, Nazism, and Communism are all Collectivism. In this respect they are all alike."
"American Cassandra: The Life Of Dorothy Thompson"
"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."
"Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. They may be the gentle philosopher whose name is in the Blue Book, or Bill from City College to whom democracy gave a chance to design airplanes — youll never make Nazis out of them. But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success — they would all go Nazi in a crisis. Believe me, nice people dont go Nazi. Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them. Those who havent anything in them to tell them what they like and what they dont — whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi."