The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a totalitarian enemy was to intimidate him. The trouble with this theory was that while we live in a world of plot and counterplot, we also live in a world of cause and effect. Whatever the cause for the decision to legitimize and regularize deceit abroad, the inevitable effect was the practice of deceit at home.
Norman CousinsIf news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation
Norman CousinsThe capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
Norman CousinsOf all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.
Norman CousinsFreedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.
Norman Cousins