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States 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.
- In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers…
- The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of…
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