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.
Norman CousinsThe main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman CousinsReverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself.
Norman CousinsOf all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.
Norman CousinsThe 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 Cousins