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…

— Ludwig Quidde

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

— Ludwig Quidde

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

— 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…

— Ludwig Quidde

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

— Ludwig Quidde

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

— Ludwig Quidde

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

— Ludwig Quidde

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

— Ludwig Quidde

When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic…

— Ludwig Quidde

Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.

— Ludwig Quidde

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any…

— Ludwig Quidde

Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war…

— Ludwig Quidde

Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means of disarmament.

— Ludwig Quidde

It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a…

— Ludwig Quidde

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had…

— Ludwig Quidde

The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up…

— Ludwig Quidde

The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on…

— Ludwig Quidde

Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to…

— Ludwig Quidde

Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do…

— Ludwig Quidde

The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security…

— Ludwig Quidde