Norman Cousins War Quotations

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.

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?

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.

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

More and more, the choice for the world's people is between world warriors and world citizens.

History is a vast early warning system.

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

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