Important Quotes by Ludwig Quidde

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

— Ludwig Quidde

Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

— Ludwig Quidde

Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.

— Ludwig Quidde

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

— Ludwig Quidde

I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the…

— Ludwig Quidde

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

— Ludwig Quidde

Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.

— Ludwig Quidde

The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment…

— Ludwig Quidde

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight…

— Ludwig Quidde

The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should…

— Ludwig Quidde

So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be…

— Ludwig Quidde

Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street…

— Ludwig Quidde