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 the right of conquest and followed by commercial war, but only by a peace which gives… — 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 Image
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 Image
The obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men. In the study of matter we can be honest, impartial, true. That is why we succeed in dealing with it. But about the things we care for — which are ourselves, our desires and lusts, our patriotisms and hates — we find a harder test of thinking straight… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 which the power of the interests can be undermined and their maneuvers defeated is by bringing home to the public… — 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 Image
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 Image
God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself. — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies… — 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 Image
Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making. — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
