The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing either upon the public's indifference, confusions, prejudices, pugnacities or fears. And the only way in… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only… — Norman Angell Copy Share
The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war . . . by capturing the popular will. The only prophylactic against that… — Norman Angell Copy Share
The obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men. In the study of matter we can be honest, impartial, true. That… — Norman Angell Copy Share
The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon. — Norman Angell Copy Share
It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so often inspired… — Norman Angell Copy Share
The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by… — Norman Angell Copy Share
“War has no longer the justification that it makes for the survival of the fittest; it involves the survival of the less fit. The… — Norman Angell Copy Share
I joined the Labour Party not because it was Left Wing, but because it was definitely internationalists and would seem to be the group… — Norman Angell Copy Share
God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself. — Norman Angell Copy Share
Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome,… — Norman Angell Copy Share
What could be a more Canadian way to indulge in the national preoccupation with perceptions - honest, hilarious, huffy or high-minded - of this… — Norman Angell Copy Share
Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making. — Norman Angell Copy Share
What is needed is the development in men of that particular type of skill which will enable them to make social use of knowledge… — Norman Angell Copy Share
The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others. — Norman Angell Copy Share
The Council of the Union of Democratic Control re-affirms its unshaken conviction that a lasting settlement cannot be secured by a peace based upon… — Norman Angell Copy Share
