Quote

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

Norman Cousins

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Norman Cousins
Age: 75 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 30
Journalist
Literary Critic
Peace Activist
Professor
Writer
Union City
New Jersey
Ultimate
Democracy
Responsibility
Freedom
Enjoy
Individual
Enjoys
Power
Carries
Carrie

More quotes by Norman Cousins

Image
The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of meeting the wide range of serious problems that are inherent in a world that has become a single geographic unit.
Norman Cousins
Image
The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for enabling a patient to get rid of whatever is ailing him.
Norman Cousins
Image
Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.
Norman Cousins
Image
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
Norman Cousins
Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.
Norman Cousins
Image
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.
Norman Cousins
Image
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
Norman Cousins
Image
Cynicism is intellectual treason.
Norman Cousins
Image
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
Norman Cousins
Image
Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.
Norman Cousins
Image
Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.
Norman Cousins
Image
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
Norman Cousins
Image
The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.
Norman Cousins
Image
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.
Norman Cousins
Image
More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.
Norman Cousins
Image
Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.
Norman Cousins
Image
Integration is a basic law of life when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us. Thus we come to the concept of harmony through integration.
Norman Cousins
Image
Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
Norman Cousins
Image
History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
Image
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.
Norman Cousins