“I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I'm part of the fashion industry. But that's never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.” ChildrenWantedGirlStageFashionDesignIndustryClothesShoesMy ThoughtsFashion Industry Author:Christian Louboutin
“Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.” StatesAgeBehindsSovereignMilitarismProtectionism 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.” WorldHumansFactsSpiritualCommunityEconomicMankindTheoryDevelopmentCivilizationHealthyOrganizedHuman SocietyCommon InterestsInternationalism 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.” FoundSocialEconomicFieldsTheoryDevelopmentBasesProfoundFactorsInternationalismSocial TheoryDevelopment 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.” ThinkingWayStatesFormCertainOrganizationFunctionInterpretationWay Of ThinkingMilitarismArmament 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.” YearsStatesFeelingsAgeFormStrongReligiousGloryEuropeTraditionAncientDevotionProtectedSanctityTerritorialFatherland 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 BeensStatesFeelingsFormCenturyEuropeDeliberateNineteenth 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.” WorldWholeReadingCommonMankindEventsBeatsNewspapersReactionsCivilizedPulseCommon ManSimultaneous 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.” StatesDifferencesDegreesConceptsInherentSovereignMilitarism 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.” HumansIdeasRealBeliefGrowingPersonalityHigherIdealsEternityAbsolutesRaisesDevelopingThirstSuperhumanCoherence Author:Christian Lous Lange