Christian Lous Lange Quotes

Internationalism, properly understood, is not contact between states; nor is it contact between super-nationalists and cosmopolitans who have torn themselves loose from affiliation with their nation. It is at home neither round the green table of the diplomatists nor "above the melee" with the minority minds. True internationalism is contact between nations in their highest and best and most distinctive representatives and manifestations.

Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Internationalism protects the sovereignty of my country

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

How can we expect other nations to respect our law if we don't respect theirs?

No nation can ever be safe in the position it holds among nations, however great and however imposing, unless it recognizes those principles of justice and equality which bind together the nations of the world.

Humanity requires that nationalisms be overcome.

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

International policy does not aim at exploiting local, specific conditions to widen zones of influence and create difficulties for another country. The goal of international policy is to insure universal fulfillment of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" and to prevent a sharpening of international tensions and a strengthening of militarist and nationalist tendencies.

There must of course always be separate interests of different nations which their governments are bound to maintain, but there are also common interests in which all civilized nations share. These common interests arise from the interdependence of civilized peoples and they are a product of developing civilization.

We need to get involved in things that are important to other countries, just as we expect them to participate in things that are important to us.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

All nations are not ready for this.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

No one should abandon his county's interest upon entering the portals of the United Nations.

American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.