#thinkable

They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#called #conventional #insane #madmen #place

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#both #common #context #cultural #dante

What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago? ↗

— Randall Terry

#america #children #down #down the road #horrors

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#now #september #thinkable #unthinkable #world

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#canadian #figures #inauguration #life #our

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#concerned #only #poet #poor #statistician

A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable. ↗

— Nick Johnson

#now #seemed #starting #things #thinkable

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#becomes #events #extraordinary #extraordinary things #human

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#countries #each #occurred #other #two

I couldn’t imagine leaving a child. Not because it was unthinkable, but because I couldn’t imagine having a child to leave. ↗

— V.T. Davy

#children #leave #unthinkable #art