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State Quotes by 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 concept of the…
- Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.
- 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…
- 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…
- It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.
- Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.
- 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…
- The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now…
- 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…
- No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the…
- The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass…
- Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.
- It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that…
- For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic.
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- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
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- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila