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 AngellEvery nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
Norman AngellThe greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
Norman AngellThe evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.
Norman AngellWhat 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 AngellThe 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 the danger of its indifference, the absurdity of its prejudices, or the hollowness of its fears; by showing that it is indifferent to danger where real danger exists; frightened by dangers which are nonexistent.
Norman Angell