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“What is needed is the development in men of that particular type of skill which will enable them to make social use of knowledge already in their possession; enable them to apply simple, sometimes self-evident, truths to the guidance of their common life.” quote by Norman Angell — Download Open image

“What is needed is the development in men of that particular type of skill which will enable them to make social use of knowledge already in their possession; enable them to apply simple, sometimes self-evident, truths to the guidance of their common life.”

Norman Angell

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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…

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

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It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so often inspired…

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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 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…

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“War has no longer the justification that it makes for the survival of the fittest; it involves the survival of the less fit. The…

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I joined the Labour Party not because it was Left Wing, but because it was definitely internationalists and would seem to be the group…

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

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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…

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

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