Norman Cousins Quotes about War

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

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”

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

Norman Cousins

War, Effectiveness, Possibility

Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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

The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

Norman Cousins

War, Justice, Obsession

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.

Norman Cousins

War, Air, Land