Ludwig Quidde Quotes

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• It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well…
• The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of…
• When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament…
• Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means of disarmament.
• Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
• Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the…
• Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.
• Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would…
• Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
• I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first…
• Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.
• 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…
• So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined,…
• Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for…
• The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and…
• We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.
• Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.
• 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.…
• The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of…
• In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

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