Norman Angell Quotes

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• 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…
• It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make…
• 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…
• It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so often inspired heroism…
• The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war . . . by capturing the popular will. The only prophylactic against that situation…
• The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
• Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
• Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.
• God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

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