Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.
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Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.Ludwig Quidde
Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.
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As long as it was only we poor pacifists who said that kind of thing we were treated as lunatics, as incurable utopians, or even as traitors.
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Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.
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Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means of disarmament.
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In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.
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