“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
“It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.” WorldTodayEducationHigherRegardPrivilegeHigher EducationToday's World Author:Norman Cousins
“But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at all. In the spirit of this passage, the editor has taken the liberty of editing Mr. Cousins' language to make it more gender inclusive.” WorldImportantSpiritLanguagePeaceLibertyTakenSubjectsTaughtGenderEditorsPassagesEditingCousinMaking Peace Author:Norman Cousins
“The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of meeting the wide range of serious problems that are inherent in a world that has become a single geographic unit.” WorldProblemChallengesSeriousCapableMeetingsWideRangeAgencyInherentUnitsSalvage Author:Norman Cousins
“The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.” WorldRealAmericaWealthHuman NatureResourcesHumankindReal Wealth Author:Norman Cousins
“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?” WorldHumansWarFactsForcePeaceHuman BeingsThousandThirtyDestructivePoundsAnti WarAntiwarIndignationUssrRighteous Indignation Author:Norman Cousins
“Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed as he did only thirty or forty years ago. Being "educated" today requires not only more than a superficial knowledge of the arts and sciences, but a sense of inter-relationship such as is taught in few schools. Finally, being "educated" today, in terms of the larger needs, means preparation for world citizenship; in short, education for survival.” KnowsWorldNeedsYearsMeanArtTodaySchoolTimeOrderIndividualTermTaughtSurvivalYears AgoAverageIndividualityEducatedPreparationThirtyFortySuperficialCitizenshipArt And ScienceSuperficial Knowledge Author:Norman Cousins
“The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible.” WorldBeliefStartingStarting Point Book:World Source: World
“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
“Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati on for Earning, Preparation for Living, Preparation for Understanding, Preparation for Participation in the problems involved in the making of a better world.” WorldEndsProblemSchoolThreeUnderstandingFourFailingInvolvedPreparationEarningParticipationSpectrum 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
“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.” WorldWayHardHomeActionCausesDecisionDealsEnemyPracticeTroubleEffectsTheoryInevitableDeceitPlotJustificationIntimidatingCause And EffectCloaksDaggersPredatory Author:Norman Cousins
“We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.” IfsWorldPhilosophyAmericaMistakeProductsTrainingDefective Author:Norman Cousins
