Arthur Henderson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
-- Arthur Henderson

#Justice #Essentials #Social
To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.
-- Arthur Henderson

#Order #Law #World
The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.
-- Arthur Henderson

#Peace #Powerful #Intellectual
The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
-- Arthur Henderson

#Struggle #Thinking #Order
The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.
-- Arthur Henderson

#Partnership #Institutions #Unesco
This is our world, and we must make the best of it.
-- Arthur Henderson

#Our World #World #Make The Best Of It
Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.
-- Arthur Henderson

#Influence #Failing #Courses
The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.
-- Arthur Henderson

#Economic #Revival #Nationalism
In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
-- Arthur Henderson

#War #World #Buying
The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.
-- Arthur Henderson

#Fashion #Needs #World
In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.
-- Arthur Henderson

#War #Gone #Length
I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.
-- Arthur Henderson

#Believe #Civilization #Democracy
The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
-- Arthur Henderson

#Depression #Years #Political
The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.
-- Arthur Henderson

#Community #World #Prosperity
It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.
-- Arthur Henderson

#War #Believe #Done
We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
-- Arthur Henderson

#War #Years #Forever
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
-- Arthur Henderson

#War #Civilization #Upheaval
The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?
-- Arthur Henderson

#Order #Foundation #Essentials
The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
-- Arthur Henderson

#War #Years #Civilization
One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.
-- Arthur Henderson

#Political #Essentials #World
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
-- Arthur Henderson

#War #Civilization #Years
Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race.
-- Arthur Henderson

#Race #Maintaining #Arms
As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
-- Arthur Henderson

#Equality #Rights #Firsts
Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
-- Arthur Henderson

#Country #Struggle #Justice
In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
-- Arthur Henderson

#War #May #Paper

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