Norman Angell
Overview
 
Sir Ralph Norman Angell (26 December 1872 – 7 October 1967) was an English
England
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 lecturer
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, journalist
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, author
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, and Member
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 of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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 for the Labour Party.

Angell was one of the principal founders of the Union of Democratic Control
Union of Democratic Control
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. He served on the Council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, was an executive for the World Committee against War and Fascism, a member of the executive committee of the League of Nations Union
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, and the president of the Abyssinia Association.
Quotations

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

"Canada's Best Service for British Ideals" (1913)

The Council of the Union of Democratic Control re-affirms its unshaken conviction that a lasting settlement cannot be secured by a peace based upon the right of conquest and followed by commercial war, but only by a peace which gives just consideration to the claims of nationality, and which lays the foundation of a real European partnership.

The Union of Democratic Control (10 October 1916)

I joined the Labour Party not because it was Left Wing, but because it was definitely internationalists and would seem to be the group in the Labour Party which would serve my purpose best for propaganda along internationalist lines.

After All (1951) :Initially an essay published at Angell's expense as Europe's Optical Illusion (1909), all subsequent editions were titled The Great Illusion.

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

One cannot take up a leading article in even the foremost papers dealing with foreign relations, without finding it assumed that European governments have the instincts of savages and the foresight of cattle-lifters. Are we to assume that the governments of the world, which presumably are directed by men as farsighted as bankers, are permanently to fall below the banker in their conception of enlightened self-interest?

The more our commercial system gains in complication, the more does the common prosperity of us all come to depend upon the due performance of all contracts. Commercial development is broadly illustrating one profound truth: that the real basis of social morality is self-interest. If the subject of rivalry between nations is business, the code which has come to dominate business must necessarily come to dominate the conduct of governments.

 
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