Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins
Norman Cousinswas an American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 June 1915
CountryUnited States of America
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The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.
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Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
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The American people today are involved in a warfare more deadly than the war in Vietnam, but few of them seem aware of it and even fewer of them are doing anything about it. This is a war that is being waged against the American environment, against our lands, air, and water, which are the basis of that environment.
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The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.
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More and more, the choice for the world's people is between world warriors and world citizens.
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History is a vast early warning system.
war justice obsession
The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.
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War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
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The way a book is read which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
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People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time
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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.
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Pessimism operates in a narrowed field of vision that fails to take into account the possibilities at the outer edges of experience.
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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
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Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives us a greater sense of infinity than if we were to spend all our days with our eyes hypnotically glued to the giant telescope at Mt. Palomar. What we see ultimately is that the placebo isn't really necessary and that the mind can carry out its difficult and wondrous missions unprompted by little pills. The placebo is only a tangible object made essential in an age that feels uncomfortable with intangibles, an age that prefers to think that every inner effect must have an outer cause. Since it has size and shape and can be hand-held, the placebo satisfies the contemporary craving for visible mechanisms and visible answers . The placebo, then, is an emissary between the will to live and the body.