Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.


Norman Douglas

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If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands ...
NORMAN MAILER
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
NORMAN MAILER
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juice...
NORMAN MAILER
We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to l...
NORMAN COUSINS
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the...
NORMAN COUSINS
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
NORMAN COUSINS
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead thems...
NORMAN TEBBIT
Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The w...
NORMAN COUSINS
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptio...
NORMAN MAILER
Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives ...
NORMAN COUSINS
If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured t...
NORMAN AUGUSTINE
There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the w...
NORMAN MAILER
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of i...
NORMAN COUSINS
Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
NORMAN MAILER
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can ...
NORMAN COUSINS
Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
NORMAN MAILER
Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless...
NORMAN ALLEN
It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be ent...
NORMAN ANGELL
The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views diffe...
NORMAN TEBBIT
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods...
NORMAN COUSINS
The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the pu...
NORMAN COUSINS
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of...
NORMAN COUSINS
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS
I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of ho...
NORMAN MAILER
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is The computer is down
NORMAN AUGUSTINE
Cynicism is intellectual treason.
NORMAN COUSINS
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes int...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
NORMAN MAILER
There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
NORMAN MAILER