Christian Lous Lange

For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is…

— Christian Lous Lange

Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits…

— Christian Lous Lange

Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.

— Christian Lous Lange

Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market…

— Christian Lous Lange

Europe cannot survive another world war.

— Christian Lous Lange

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

— Christian Lous Lange

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in…

— Christian Lous Lange

The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of…

— Christian Lous Lange

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an…

— Christian Lous Lange

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so…

— Christian Lous Lange

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were,…

— Christian Lous Lange

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

— Christian Lous Lange

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state…

— Christian Lous Lange

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a…

— Christian Lous Lange

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our…

— Christian Lous Lange

Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the…

— Christian Lous Lange

Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover,…

— Christian Lous Lange

Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most…

— Christian Lous Lange

Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.

— Christian Lous Lange

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength…

— Christian Lous Lange

The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to…

— Christian Lous Lange

Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the…

— Christian Lous Lange

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist…

— Christian Lous Lange

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created…

— Christian Lous Lange

The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal…

— Christian Lous Lange