Norman Thomas Quotes


There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1. To talk of blueprints for the future or building a world order is, if properly understood, suggestive, but it is also dangerous. Societies grow far more truly than they are built. A constitution for a new world order is never like a blueprint for a skyscraper.


Citations

Thomas, Norman. What Is Our Destiny? Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1944, p. 102.

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Norman Thomas
Norman Thomas
  • Born: November 20, 1884
  • Died: December 19, 1968
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Political Writer, Activist

Norman Mattoon Thomas was an American Presbyterian minister who achieved fame as a socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.