Antiwar Quote by Norman Angell

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

The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war . . . by capturing the popular will. The only prophylactic against that…

— Norman Angell

The obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men. In the study of matter we can be honest, impartial, true. That…

— Norman Angell

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

— Norman Angell

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…

— Norman Angell

“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

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

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

— Norman Angell

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome,…

— Norman Angell

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

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

— Norman Angell

What is needed is the development in men of that particular type of skill which will enable them to make social use of knowledge…

— Norman Angell