Norman Angell Quotes

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.

I am a peace man except when I wish to fight.

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

No nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Every nation must have some degree of military organization, even among the most peaceful peoples. The possession of armament however, no matter how necessary, breeds suspicion, fear, counter-armament and hate.

It would win for us a proud title—we would become the first aggressors for peace.

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

The belief that war is inevitable makes of war a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

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

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression.

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.

We have agreed that peace can be achieved with the removal of the occupation and the end of aggression.

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.