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Quotes from The Great Illusion — Norman Angell

1872–1967 England

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This book endeavors to clear away the mists which prevent so many from seeing the road.

The Great Illusion (1910)

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.

The Great Illusion (1910)

The prosperity of a people depends upon such facts as the natural wealth of the country in which they live, their social discipline and industrial character, the result of generations, of centuries, it may be, of tradition.

The Great Illusion (1910)

War has no longer the justification that it makes for the survival of the fittest; it involves the survival of the less fit. The idea that the struggle between nations is a part of the evolutionary law of man's advance involves a profound misreading of the biological analogy.
The warlike nations do not inherit the earth; they represent the decaying human element.

The Great Illusion (1910)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Norman Angell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.