Christian Lous Lange Quotes

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

We don't want to fight, But, by Jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men We've got the money too.

Any idea that you can have a league for security is nuts, and all people who favor it are potential murderers… as long as man is man, there will be war and the only way to avoid trouble is to have the best army and navy, which we now have.

Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn.

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

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

Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

The possession of highly developed armed forces by small nations is disastrous in all its consequences.

Never should the word peace fall from the mouths of our highest officials.... With such a country as ours, with her vast areas ... her immense natural resources, and her hundreds of millions of inhabitants, if all would prove their loyalty to their emperor and love of their country, what indeed is there to fear from any strong invader? Let us not think of making peace, nor rely solely upon diplomatic maneuvers.

War is the national industry of Germany [Prussia].

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

Our military shouldn't be outgunned.

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.