Norman Angell Quotes

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

Norman Angell

#2. Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

Norman Angell

#3. What could be a more Canadian way to indulge in the national preoccupation with perceptions - honest, hilarious, huffy or high-minded - of this country and its inhabitants?

Norman Angell

#4. 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.

Norman Angell

#5. 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

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

Norman Angell

#7. The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.

Norman Angell

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

Norman Angell

#9. I joined the Labour Party not because it was Left Wing, but because it was definitely internationalists and would seem to be the group in the Labour Party which would serve my purpose best for propaganda along internationalist lines.

Norman Angell

#10. 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.

Norman Angell