"A pacifist will often – at least nowadays – be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally."
― Christian Lous Lange
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History
― Christian Lous Lange
More From Christian Lous Lange
- "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."
- "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."
- "History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?"
More In History
- "He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones."― A. J. P. Taylor
- "It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man."― Henry David Thoreau
- "In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions."― David Miliband