All Christian Lous Lange Quotes
- Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. Dangerous
- Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the… Auspices
- Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has… Attempt
- Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press. Characteristic
- Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of… Appeal
- Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism. Economic
- It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each… Accepted
- The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the… Concept
- Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a… Compelling
- The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to… Adapt
- Europe cannot survive another world war. Another World
- The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and… Civilization
- Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity… All
- Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how… Certain
- But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty. Belief
- Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their… Achievement
- It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle. Battle
- History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own? Await
- A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think… History
- Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism. Age
- Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of… Biological
- Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the… All
- Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its… Armament
- The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now… Age
- Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate… Been