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Christian Lous Lange Quotes

Norwegian - Politician | September 17, 1869 - December 11, 1938

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

World Reading Create Newspaper Over

Europe cannot survive another world war.

Christian Lous Lange

War World Survive Europe Cannot

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

Christian Lous Lange

War Society Inevitable Development

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

Intelligence Spiritual People Acting

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

Christian Lous Lange

Hope Belief Certainty Lead Give

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

History Fate Civilization Same Own

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

Practice Free Labor Principal Point

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

Christian Lous Lange

Behind State Themselves Protectionism

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

Organization Thinking Way Function

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

Civilization Infinite Become Human

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

Battle Now Engage Against Must

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

Growth Opportunity World Down Labor

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