, author
, professor
, and world peace
advocate.
Cousins was born in Union City, New Jersey
. At age 11, he was misdiagnosed with tuberculosis
and placed in a sanatorium
. Despite this, he was an athletic youth, and he claimed that as a young boy, he had “set out to discover exuberance.”
Cousins attended Theodore Roosevelt High School
in the Bronx, New York City
, graduating on February 3, 1933. He edited the high school paper, "The Square Deal", where his editing abilities were already in evidence.
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas — a place where history comes to life.
What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.
We will not have peace by afterthought.
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.