Christian Lous Lange Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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