Norman Cousins

Many of the same people who have no difficulty in finding extenuating circumstances to account for the violence of the hardhats, find it impossible to accept any explanations for the violence of the students.

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble.

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the pursuit of force.

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Many of the same people who have no difficulty in finding extenuating circumstances to account for the violence of the hardhats, find it impossible to accept any explanations for the violence of the students.

It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed . . . Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

It is nonsense to say that there is not enough time to be fully informed. Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.