“The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world consciousness and a world design. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.” PeopleThinkingWorldFirstsEarthExistenceConsciousnessDesignHabitCitizensMadnessRationalOur TimeSanityFulfillingRequirementsWorld Citizen Author:Norman Cousins
“The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness . . . Bernie Siegel is helping to define and open up these new frontiers. In this sense he is in the best medical tradition.” PeopleThinkingWayHelpingTraditionIllnessMedicalNew WaysFrontiersNew FrontiersBest Medical Author:Norman Cousins
“The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.” PeopleSelfSpiritEnergyTroubleWorstDespairSpringDefeatOpeningHorizonInvitesFulfillingHopelessnessHelplessness Author:Norman Cousins
“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.” PeopleWarSeemsTodayWaterEnvironmentAirLandInvolvedBasesEnvironmentalVietnamFewerPollutionWarfareAir And Water Author:Norman Cousins
“The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read.” PeopleYearsMightOne ThingTasteConcernNotionEnthusiasmI Have LearnedEditingPublishEditsGuesswork Author:Norman Cousins
“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.” PeopleWarUseTodayFoundForcePeaceSecurityAnti WarAntiwarUse Of Force Author:Norman Cousins
“Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths.” PeopleGovernmentBuiltPerceive Author:Norman Cousins
“People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.” PeopleDreamFearFearlessObsessedExpensesDreamerInsecure Author:Norman Cousins
“The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.” PeopleHumansMatterDestinyFateImagineFailurePreparedManifest Destiny Author:Norman Cousins
“The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.” PeopleHeartMatterDeathCausesCompassionCrueltyIndifferenceInjuryIndifferentLiving Things Author:Norman Cousins
“What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.” PeopleWorldNeedsFactsPurposeDecisionDesignPerspectiveSkillsEssentialsSurvivalConscienceLogicHistoricalConversionFree WillSane Author:Norman Cousins
“More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.” PeopleWorldChoicesCitizensWarriorWar Of The WorldsWorld Citizen Author:Norman Cousins
“Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?” PeopleFormDeathTermDyingUnnatural Author:Norman Cousins
