Norman Cousins Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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?”

“A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.”

“If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.”

“Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.”

“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.”

“The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.”