Norman Angell Quotes
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The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war . . . by capturing the popular will. The only prophylactic against that situation is to make the public aware of the way in which it is being misled.
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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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God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.
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The fight for ideals can no longer take the form of fight between nations, because the lines of division on moral questions are within the nations themselves and intersect the political frontiers.
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The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.
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Political nationalism has become, for the European of our age the most important thing in the world, more important than civilization, humanity, decency, kindness, pity, more important than life itself.
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Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
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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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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 them right by discussion.
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We use power, of course, in the international fields in a way which is the exact contrary to the way in which we use it within the state.