"For the state by its nature claims sovereignty,……" — 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 by nature anarchistic."

— Christian Lous Lange

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Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed…
Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what,…
Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph,…
Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the…
Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower…
The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is…
Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in…
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances…
Europe cannot survive another world war.
The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to…

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This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will... — Benjamin Tucker
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In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor. — Dan Graham
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I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the… — George Orwell
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My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke… — Steven Pinker
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