199 Quotes by Norman Cousins
"To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species."
"Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country."
"People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams."
"Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?"
"Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going."
"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."
"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."
"It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing."
"All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body."