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Christian Lous Lange

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Christian Lous Lange, born on September 17, 1869, and died on December 11, 1938, was a Norwegian politician known for his significant role in Norwegian and European political stages. He served as the Prime Minister of Norway and held important positions in the League of Nations, contributing to international peace and security.

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

States Age Behinds Sovereign Militarism Protectionism

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

World Humans Facts Spiritual Community Economic Mankind Theory Development Civilization Healthy Organized Human Society Common Interests Internationalism

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

Found Social Economic Fields Theory Development Bases Profound Factors Internationalism Social Theory Development Of Society

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

Thinking Way States Form Certain Organization Function Interpretation Way Of Thinking Militarism Armament

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

Years States Feelings Age Form Strong Religious Glory Europe Tradition Ancient Devotion Protected Sanctity Territorial Fatherland

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

Has Beens States Feelings Form Century Europe Deliberate Nineteenth Century

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

World Whole Reading Common Mankind Events Beats Newspapers Reactions Civilized Pulse Common Man Simultaneous

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

States Differences Degrees Concepts Inherent Sovereign Militarism

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

Humans Ideas Real Belief Growing Personality Higher Ideals Eternity Absolutes Raises Developing Thirst Superhuman Coherence

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

War States Levels Moral Dangerous Mass Intellectual Lows Entity Antisocial

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

Humans Two Body Dies Individual Grows Creating Female Unions Males Cells Eggs Organs Splits Human Body Germs

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

Facts Chance Existence Struggle Greater Survival Capable Species Manage Rely Lions Packs Hunts Grasping Rely Upon Lone Wolf Struggle For Existence

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.”

Mean Important Helping Animal Species Mutual Solidarity Enabling Mutual Help

Author:Christian Lous Lange

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

Ifs War States Lasts Development Inevitable Last Words Territorial Development Of Society

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

World Has Beens War States Effort Particular Program War Of The Worlds Regulation Frontiers Formation

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.”

Technology Dangerous Masters Servant Modern Technology Advanced Technology

Author: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 territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.”

World Stills States Today Community Communication Concepts Bridges Live For Today Territorial

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

Reality Form Political Force Steps Economic Development Planes Steps Forward

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.”

Modern Media Communication Development Intellectual Presses Posts Characteristics Telephones Interdependence Telegraph Modern Media

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

War Belief Mankind Judgment Shadow Blessed Appeals Propaganda Stations Valleys Summit Better Future Shadow Of Death

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.”

States Hands Struggle Economic March Sovereign Hand In Hand Militarism Internationalism Isolationism

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

People Mean Spiritual Individual Levels Acting Psychology Morality Crowds Accepted Commonplace Mean People

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

Practice Concepts Program Labor Trade International Division Principal Solidarity Free Trade Internationalism Division Of Labor

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

Needs Feelings Together Joy Values Social Moral Groups Working Together Compelling Solidarity Moral Values Social Groups

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

Firsts Lasts Middle Century Movement Circumstances Conscious Trade Recognition Free Trade

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“Europe cannot survive another world war.”

World War Europe War Of The Worlds Another World

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

Humans Mean States Numbers Danger Development Civilization Destruction Infinite Variety Our Time Sovereign Human Civilization

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

World Mean States Opportunity Growth Modern Intellectual Labor Technique Division Torn Frontiers Transport Division Of Labor

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

Humans Political Certain Nations Social Particular Theory Ought Concepts Relation Organized Mutual Organize Human Society Internationalism Political Theory

Author:Christian Lous Lange

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

Giving Belief Certainty Consideration

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“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.”

Art Character Hands Spiritual Literature Consciousness Achievement Roots Humanistic Internationalism

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.”

States Battle Concepts Engagement Isolated Sovereign Militarism Protectionism Internationalism

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?”

Knows Doe Shows Form Fate Civilization

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.”

Thinking Needs Shows Vices Vice Versa Pacifist

Author:Christian Lous Lange

About the Author

Born: September 17, 1869
Died: December 11, 1938
Known for: Political figure
Quotes: 35

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