28 Quotes by Ludwig Quidde

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.

The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.

It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

One can take exception to this idea on the grounds that a method of disarmament exists which does not interfere with military security.

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.

In any consideration of disarmament, a distinction must be drawn between the positions of pacifists, of members of parliament, and of governments.

Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means of disarmament.