Quotes by Christian Lous Lange - Page 1

Europe cannot survive another world war.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
War
Europe
World
War World Europe
Survive
World War
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Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Technology
Dangerous
Masters
Servant
Useful
Master
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Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Age
Militarism
Protectionism
Sovereign
States
Ages
Earlier
Fortified
Sovereign State
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Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Animal
Enabling
Mean
Mutual
Mutual Help
Solidarity
Species
Concord
Survive
To Survive
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But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Belief
Certainty
Consideration
Giving
Considerations
Further
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Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
War
Development
Inevitable
Lasts
Territorial
Moreover
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History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Civilization
Doe
Fate
Await
Forms
Collapsed
Developed
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A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Needs
Pacifist
Thinking
Vice Versa
Vices
Internationalist
Nowadays
Versa
Vice
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Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Hands
Internationalism
Isolationism
March
Militarism
Sovereign
Struggle
Maintain
Nationalist
Sovereign State
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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 high moral value.
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Compelling
Feelings
Joy
Moral
Solidarity
Together
Represent
Group
Prevails
Social Group
Value
Work Together
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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 national feeling.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Century
Deliberate
Europe
Feelings
Nineteenth Century
Forms
Nineteenth
Recently
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It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Battle
Engagement
Internationalism
Isolated
Militarism
Protectionism
Sovereign
Now
Against
State
Concept
Decisive
Engage
Sovereign State
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On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Contrary
Internationalism
Limits
Nationalism
Scope
Name
Exist
Simply
On The Contrary
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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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Claims
Determined
Self Interest
Sovereignty
Unlimited
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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 militarism of states.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Degrees
Differences
Inherent
Militarism
Sovereign
Concept
Degree
Merely
Sovereign State
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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 the undeveloped states.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Division
Labor
Transport
Opportunity Growth World
Developed
Embracing
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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 to them.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Century
Circumstances
Conscious
Firsts
Free Trade
Lasts
Movement
Recognition
Trade
Adapt
Last Century
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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 individual's intelligence or morality.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Accepted
Commonplace
Mean
Morality
People
Psychology
Spiritual
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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 program of internationalism.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Division
Division Of Labor
Free Trade
International
Labor
Practice
Principal
Program
Solidarity
Concept
Expressed
Main
Worldwide
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Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Communication
Intellectual
Interdependence
Media
Telegraph
Characteristic
Popular
Post
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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 variety of means of destruction.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Civilization
Danger
Destruction
Human Civilization
Infinite
Mean
Numbers
Sovereign
Variety
Developments
Employ
Lethal
Sovereign State
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The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Civilized
Mankind
Pulse
Reactions
Reading
Simultaneous
World
Beat
Mental
Newspaper
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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 most decisive factors in the development of society.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Development
Factors
Fields
Internationalism
Profound
Basis
Decisive
Seek
Technical
Theories
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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 according to a consciously national program.
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War
Effort
Formation
Frontiers
Program
Regulation
World
War Peace World
According
Directed
Efforts
Toward
World War
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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 the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Certain
Human Society
Internationalism
Mutual
Nations
Organize
Ought
Political
Social
Theory
Concept
Relations
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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 outer forms: by armaments and state organization.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Function
Interpretation
Militarism
Organization
Thinking
Way
Forms
Manner
Moreover
Outer
Revealed
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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 already more or less become reality.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Development
Political
Reality
Attempt
Forms
Emerge
Forces
More Or Less
Plane
Step Forward
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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 death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
War
Belief
Better Future
Blessed
Judgment
Mankind
Propaganda
Shadow
Shadow Of Death
Summit
Appeal
Valley
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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 technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Becoming
Territorial
Characteristic
Economically
Technically
More And More
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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 entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
War
Antisocial
Entity
Intellectual
Levels
Mass
Develop
Doubly
Low
Theoretically
Wage
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All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Capable
Existence
Grasping
Greater
Manage
Rely
Rely Upon
Species
Struggle
Survival
Hunt
Lion
Pack
Wolf
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The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Belief
Coherence
Developing
Eternity
Higher
Ideas
Personality
Raises
Real
Superhuman
Thirst
Absolute
Ideal
Steadily
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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 for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Opportunity
Division
Division Of Labor
Frontiers
Labor
Mean
Torn
Transport
Opportunity Growth World
Developed
Economical
Embracing
Techniques
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Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Creating
Eggs
Female
Grows
Human Body
Individual
Organs
Splits
Two
Male
Cell
Created
Egg
Germ
Immediately
Parts
Union
Rapidly
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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 human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Civilization
Community
Facts
Human Society
Internationalism
Mankind
Organized
Spiritual
Theory
Founded
Biological
Requires
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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 character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Art
Character
Consciousness
Humanistic
Internationalism
Roots
Spiritual
Achievements
Admit
Derive
Firmly
National Life
Sciences
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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 territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Communication
Bridges
Community
Territorial
Bridge
Communications
Concept
Economically
Technically
Governed
Leading
Worldwide
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The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Ancient
Devotion
Fatherland
Glory
Protected
Religious
Sanctity
Strong
Territorial
Years
Dates
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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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 human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally. Nationalities should form the constitutive links in a great world alliance, and must be guaranteed an independent life in the realm of the spiritual and for locally delimited tasks, while economic and political objectives must be guided internationally in a spirit of peaceful cooperation for the promotion of mankind's common interests.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Civilization
Independent
Spiritual
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