Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained. — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments. — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic. — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace. — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war. — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment. — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security. — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
