Norman Cousins Quotes About Peace

Quotes about: Peace

• War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Norman Cousins (1963). “The New Realities The First Richard Joshua Reynolds Lecture at Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, Nov. 19, 1963”

• 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?

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, War, World

• If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, Firsts, Conflict

  Norman Cousins (1961). “In place of folly”

• Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the killer and the killed do not know each other, and in which,indeed, the very fact of mass death has the effect of making mass killing less reprehensible than the death of a single individual. In short, we have evolved in every respect except our ability to protect ourselves against human intelligence. Our knowledge is vast but does not embrace the workings of peace.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, Humanity, Doe

• 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.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, Cousin, Taken

• 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 Cousins

  Peace, War, People

• We will not have peace by afterthought.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, Literature, Afterthought

  "Saturday Review" magazine, Editorial, 1956.

• Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

  Norman Cousins

  Life, Motivational, Peace

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