Christian Lous Lange Quotes

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• Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

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  Technology, Masters, Dangerous

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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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  Joy, Feelings, Together

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• Europe cannot survive another world war.

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  War, Europe, World

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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.

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  Communication, Bridges, Community

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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.

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  Struggle, Rely Upon, Survival

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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.

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  Practice, Division Of Labor, Program

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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.

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  Spiritual, Civilization, Community

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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.

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  Spiritual, Art, Character

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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.

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  Religious, Strong, Years

  "Peace: 1991-1995". World Scientific publication, p. 338, 1997.

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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.

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  Spiritual, Mean, People

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

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  Age, Sovereign, States

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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.

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  Thinking, Vices, Needs

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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.

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  War, Intellectual, Levels

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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.

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  Mean, Numbers, Civilization

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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.

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  Communication, Media, Intellectual

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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.

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  Real, Ideas, Personality

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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.

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  Spiritual, Independent, Civilization

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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, World

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

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  Mean, Animal, Mutual Help

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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?

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  Fate, Civilization, Doe

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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.

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  Profound, Development, Fields

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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.

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  Lasts, Firsts, Movement

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

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  Struggle, Hands, Sovereign

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

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  Giving, Belief, Consideration

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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.

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  War, Blessed, Shadow Of Death

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