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The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of good men.
Peace and the Public Mind (1935)
Our evils are due mainly to the failure to apply to our international relationships knowledge which is of practically universal possession, often self-evident in the facts of daily life and experience.
Peace and the Public Mind (1935)
Before war can be fought, a long series of necessary steps, which quite obviously are not and cannot be enforced steps, must be taken by the mass of men.
Peace and the Public Mind (1935)
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.
Peace and the Public Mind (1935)
The conception that we can only protect ourselves if we are prepared to protect others surely ought to belong to the nursery stage of social education.
Peace and the Public Mind (1935)
Not more knowledge but better use of the knowledge which we now have, is perhaps the main educational need and the main educational problem which confronts us.
Peace and the Public Mind (1935)
The economic difficulty of the modern world is not shortage of materials but the organization of their exchange and distribution; distress arises, not from scarcity but from dislocation and maladjustment.
Peace and the Public Mind (1935)
The fact that men are naturally quarrelsome is presumed to be an argument against such institutions as the League. But it is precisely the fact of the natural pugnacity of man that makes such institutions necessary.
Peace and the Public Mind (1935)
It is, of course, merely a truism to say that war, like other social or political evils, is the outcome of the bad management of human society, which is, in its turn, due to certain errors or deficiencies. But our task is to discern the sort of error or deficiency.
Peace and the Public Mind (1935)