Top 36 Norman Thomas Quotes
#1. I now see Norman Thomas as indeed a liberal, but as a real, old-fashioned, unreconstructed liberal who believes in freedom and justice for everybody.
Norman Thomas
#2. American socialism had lost momentum even before the war. (Socialist leader Norman Thomas received 885,000 votes in his 1932 run for the presidency, but only 187,500 in 1936.)
Benjamin Balint
#3. Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.
Ronald Reagan
#4. How will I go on without her?!
The answer was very simple: one day at a time.
Jeff Erno
#5. His life was a party which tragically came to an early end.
David J. Cooper
#6. Dissent ... is a right essential to any concept of the dignity and freedom of the individual; it is essential to the search for truth in a world wherein no authority is infallible.
Norman Thomas
#7. Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.
Norman Thomas
#8. 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.
Norman Thomas
#9. I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney. In that I really like to make people happy.
Thomas Kinkade
#10. To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
Norman Thomas
#11. The Socialist Party will no longer be running a candidate for president. The Democratic Party is leading this country to Socialism much faster than we could ever hope to.
Norman Thomas
#12. Ravished is a nice word found in sentimental novel. Between us, Moran, the word that stuck in my mind like shit to the bottom of a shoe was fucked.
Norman Lock
#13. As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.
Frank Moore Colby
#14. The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.
Norman Thomas
#15. The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.
Norman Thomas
#16. He who would save liberty must put his trust in democracy.
Norman Thomas
#18. I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them.
Thomas Perry
#19. The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.
Norman Thomas
#20. I don't like a lot of attention. That's kind of who I am at heart. So I see everything, the people circulating around me and a lot of people know me - it kind of feels like a heavy weight sometimes.
Leon Bridges
#21. The lessons are in the quest. The answers are found in the journey. These are ripples on a pond. They spread outward. And on we walk ...
Thomas Norman DeWolf
#22. If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
Norman Thomas
#23. The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
Norman Thomas
#24. I think it's time to experience life outside the notebook.
Rachel Cohn
#25. We all inherit damage from the past. We spread it like a virus and don't generally think about it.
Thomas Norman DeWolf
#26. The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly
Norman Thomas
#27. Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.
Norman Thomas
#28. As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.
Franz Liszt
#29. I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won.
Norman Thomas
#30. Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.
Norman Thomas
#31. It came to me then that we're each something of a constant gardener of a million forgotten galaxies, a librarian of lost places and times, a curator of a museum of random details that really only matter to each of us.
Jonathan Riggs
#32. God allows difficulties to happen so that your strength, faith and power can multiply.
Jeanette Coron
#34. The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.
Norman Thomas
#35. You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't
if you are wise
talk down to any audience.
Norman Thomas
#36. people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same - people
George Orwell
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