Christian Lous Lange Quotes

Christian Lous Lange — Norwegian Politician born on September 17, 1869, died on December 11, 1938

Christian Lous Lange was a Norwegian historian, teacher, and political scientist. He was one of the world's foremost exponents of the theory and practice of internationalism... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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.

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

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

Christian Lous Lange Quotes

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