Norman Thomas Quote

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.


Debate with Barry Goldwater, University of Arizona campus, Tucson, Arizona, November 1961


All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.