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. Christian Lous Lange Read Quote
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. Christian Lous Lange Read Quote
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. Christian Lous Lange Read Quote
But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty. Christian Lous Lange Read Quote
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own? Christian Lous Lange Read Quote
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. Christian Lous Lange Read Quote
Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive. Christian Lous Lange Read Quote
Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism. Christian Lous Lange Read Quote
Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism. Christian Lous Lange Read Quote
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. Christian Lous Lange Read Quote
