Christian Lous Lange quote: "History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?"

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to c...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of me...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical ...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the fo...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields;...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

Europe cannot survive another world war.
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simpl...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, w...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

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

The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small person...
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Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign ...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to surv...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biolo...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; th...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to b...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide divi...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. Ther...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism,...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together ...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those whi...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is ...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisoci...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in natio...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about ...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost im...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE

George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo...
DAVID LANGE

I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosqu...
TED LANGE

I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richar...
TED LANGE

I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.
TED LANGE

Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
TED LANGE

One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.
TED LANGE

I talk to the universe all the time.
TED LANGE

I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
TED LANGE

I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
TED LANGE

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; ...
TED LANGE

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.
TED LANGE

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
DOROTHEA LANGE

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.
DOROTHEA LANGE

A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.
ARTIE LANGE

Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated m...
JESSICA LANGE

Woody Allen stayed so good because he never left New York. Howard Stern stayed so good because he ne...
ARTIE LANGE

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see ...
DOROTHEA LANGE

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
DOROTHEA LANGE

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
JESSICA LANGE

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
JESSICA LANGE

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent fil...
JESSICA LANGE

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the ...
JESSICA LANGE

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
JESSICA LANGE

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this m...
JESSICA LANGE

What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it f...
JESSICA LANGE

Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
JESSICA LANGE

It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happe...
JESSICA LANGE

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I ...
JESSICA LANGE

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's...
JESSICA LANGE

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are mo...
JESSICA LANGE

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.
JESSICA LANGE

I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.
JESSICA LANGE

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it ...
JESSICA LANGE

There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of...
JESSICA LANGE

I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fal...
JESSICA LANGE

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
JESSICA LANGE

There are no explanations, there are no answers.
JESSICA LANGE

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious rig...
JESSICA LANGE

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, thr...
JESSICA LANGE

I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.
JESSICA LANGE

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.
JESSICA LANGE

For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach r...
JESSICA LANGE

I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.
JESSICA LANGE

I, as prime minister, never went to Washington. Certainly never went to a presidential ranch. I hate...
DAVID LANGE

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to fi...
TED LANGE

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the ce...
JESSICA LANGE

I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual sin...
JESSICA LANGE

There are always people who make a big fuss over everything. At a certain point, I stop listening.
ANDRE LANGE

The Olympics are not over yet.
ANDRE LANGE

It's the Olympics and it's special, so I had to drive special.
ANDRE LANGE

I prefer to stop today rather than risk my participation in the Games.
ANDRE LANGE

A lot of nonsense is said. And after awhile you just stop listening.
ANDRE LANGE

So I wasn't too worried.
ANDRE LANGE

He was a very good sportsman. It was great fun to compete against him. He was always fair. I'm sorry...
ANDRE LANGE

It's about softball, ... How as the guys get older and the relationships change, and softball is the...
ARTIE LANGE

A big part of my living is my stand-up material on the road,
ARTIE LANGE

There is way more pressure than other roles where I got to do jokes and leave, ... It's a lot harder...
ARTIE LANGE

intends to be at work on Monday morning. Probably more will be resolved then.
ARTIE LANGE

my man, whatever he does.
ARTIE LANGE

[The character is] basically me if I didn't luck out and get into show business,
ARTIE LANGE

That was always a dream of mine,
ARTIE LANGE

I think it reminds me of my childhood, my father, ... I think people have the same reaction. It remi...
ARTIE LANGE

Frank [Sebastiano] is a real writer, ... He has two Emmys, one from 'SNL' and the other from 'The Ch...
ARTIE LANGE

I got cast on 'MADtv' as one of eight permanent cast members chosen from 8,000 comics who...
ARTIE LANGE

We do not wish to have nuclear weapons on New Zealand soil or in our harbors. We do not ask, we do n...
DAVID LANGE

I ain't apologizing for anything, especially if it's a joke.
ARTIE LANGE

Artie is going to do what ever Artie wants to do.
ARTIE LANGE

You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my polit...
DAVID LANGE

All I can say is that you only realize how big your mountain is once you're laying motionless, h...
ARTIE LANGE

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy...
JESSICA LANGE

Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my ea...
ARTIE LANGE

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.
JESSICA LANGE

When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy&...
ARTIE LANGE

Courage is the best word to use when talking about Matt. The kid's dedication to Navy basketball has...
BILLY LANGE

It's a mindset, a mentality. All our plays are run for Greg. He'll figure it out as he continues to ...
BILLY LANGE

Corey is ahead of schedule in his rehabilitation.
BILLY LANGE

We lost to a great team having a great year. Lehigh is a club that follows its coach's game plan and...
BILLY LANGE

It's tough. We're probably holding ourselves to a higher standard than we may be ready for but at th...
BILLY LANGE

We definitely have our work cut out for us. Beating Holy Cross on its home floor in a tournament atm...
BILLY LANGE

Their intensity was at a championship level. We played at that level for some stretches, but could n...
BILLY LANGE

They are tough. They do things that championship teams have to do. They defend, they are tough and t...
BILLY LANGE

I feel a lot better walking out of this game than I did Washington College. I just thought we played...
BILLY LANGE

We're a young, inexperienced team and program. One of the things you have to guard against when thin...
BILLY LANGE

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Only when you're in that ditch, lying there in the muddy runoff you've made of your life, ga...
ARTIE LANGE

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own...
DOROTHEA LANGE

The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for ...
ARTIE LANGE

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree ...
ARTIE LANGE

Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see ...
DORTHEA LANGE

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
DOROTHEA LANGE

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
DORTHEA LANGE

I can smell the uranium on your breath
DAVID LANGE

All launch preparations for all three launches are on hold at this point.
TINA LANGE

I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
TED LANGE

It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.
JESSICA LANGE

Military action on Iraq makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.
JESSICA LANGE

Yes, and you should question your government.
JESSICA LANGE

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this m...
JESSICA LANGE

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate...
DOROTHEA LANGE

I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that...
DOROTHEA LANGE

So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty...
JESSICA LANGE

Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attenti...
JESSICA LANGE

A photograph is a portrait painted by the sun
DOROTHEA LANGE

People are so nice, you know. It's such a credit to Howard Stern - the audience base that he cre...
ARTIE LANGE

It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big bei...
ARTIE LANGE

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're w...
ARTIE LANGE

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own ...
DOROTHEA LANGE

I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, i...
ARTIE LANGE

O God, what offering shall I give
To Thee, the Lord of earth and skies?
My spirit, soul, a...
JOACHIM LANGE

Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editor...
JESSICA LANGE

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes ...
DOROTHEA LANGE

Matt was like Willis Reed coming back out of the locker room.
BILLY LANGE

Medical costs are rising significantly, so the fact that we offered a zero percent increase was subs...
TINA LANGE

It's a funny thing when you think you're dead. You're not terrified of it anymore. There...
DAVID LANGE

Basically, we were playing Hazel Park football. Our line gives a push on every single play, and I ru...
CHRIS LANGE

Hands off! I do not molest what I photograph, I do not meddle and I do not arrange.
DOROTHEA LANGE

My teeth are crooked, my nose is broken. I've never thought of myself as beautiful
JESSICA LANGE

[Conklin] started out a little slow, but he picked it up at the end. It's redundant, but if you wres...
JOHN LANGE

I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
TED LANGE

This benefit of seeing... can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening ...
DOROTHEA LANGE

What I've found is that firms here, by hook and by crook, will train their own employees. I've seen ...
WADE LANGE

My life is ungrateful to me. I do so much for it to be comfortable, and still, it repays me by throw...
LANGE WEILE

We want to protect other citizens from these types of things.
BOB LANGE

There's really nothing that can be done on old architectures that were not engineered to these requi...
BOB LANGE

For example, you are traveling at speed over a hill and my car is stalled at the bottom of that hill...
BOB LANGE

That game was decided long before it began. We came out with a very offensive-minded attitude instea...
BILLY LANGE

I thought Jay Greene did a great job of driving the ball and finding open men. His ability to break ...
BILLY LANGE

I thought Greg did a very good job of taking the ball and showing leadership.
BILLY LANGE

I'm very fired up about Greg beginning to get it. When Greg plays with confidence, he is a very good...
BILLY LANGE

I thought this was our most complete game of the season, by far. I like where we're headed. I'm happ...
BILLY LANGE

I thought we handled their run tremendously. That is the biggest difference in this team from last y...
BILLY LANGE

It's just an attitude a team develops. You can't hide a bad defender. Everybody on the floor has to ...
BILLY LANGE

I don't care about points or stats or anything like that. All I care about is seeing our team play w...
BILLY LANGE

The ODT Conference & Expo is directly aligned with our initiatives here.
WADE LANGE

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGE

There has to be a movement now to really oppose what he is proposing because it's unconstitutional, ...
JESSICA LANGE

I recognize their good intentions, however I think their position is wrong. Withdrawing our troops w...
JESSICA LANGE

It is an immoral war that they are beginning and we must not be silenced. We have to be able to stan...
JESSICA LANGE

I hate Bush, I despise him and his entire administration.
JESSICA LANGE

Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see ...
DORTHEA LANGE

There was no end to his vanity.
DAVID LANGE

What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend ...
WILLEM LANGE

The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and driv...
ARTIE LANGE

I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.
ARTIE LANGE

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, ...
ARTIE LANGE

I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country...
ARTIE LANGE

I got a cat up there that's going to die.
JOHN LANGE

I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and w...
DAVID LANGE

We saved money by cultivating a garden, and it never really occurred to us that most folks bought th...
TED LANGE

We never thought of ourselves as poor.
TED LANGE

And do I pray. God, do I pray.
TED LANGE

I constantly listen to the universe, and I advise all other artists to do the same.
TED LANGE

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find i...
TED LANGE

The good news is that the risk perception is sinking, and attitudes are rising as the current econom...
MICHAEL LANGE

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Thank God I have a financial planner who is really conservative.
ARTIE LANGE

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we...
DOROTHEA LANGE

When I encountered rich people for the first time, I discovered that not only do they holiday in pla...
ARTIE LANGE

Swimming worldwide has changed dramatically and reached new professional levels. My strategy is to b...
DIRK LANGE

We want nothing less than to be the best in the Commonwealth and I believe that can happen.
DIRK LANGE

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
DORTHEA LANGE

Whiskey will always be a part of my life.
ARTIE LANGE

Have you ever Googled yourself? I did, most depressing thing ever. People have websites hoping I die...
ARTIE LANGE

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
DOROTHEA LANGE

what sort of society do you want?
DAVID LANGE

I think more than anything, that's when I decided politics was on.
DAVID LANGE

You are the only ambassador in the world to race a horse named after your country's foreign policy.
DAVID LANGE

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

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History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

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