All Fredrik Bajer Quotes
- Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace… Ago
- We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an… Achievement
- Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession. Ballooning
- By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great… Called
- Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to… Congress
- Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former. Balance
- As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable. Authority
- Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so. Any
- Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights. Been
- I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union. Bureau
- There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs. Affair
- A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of… Adrift
- We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail. Art
- I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at… Beside
- But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister… Beside
- Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law. Bear
- An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau. Advantage
- Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not… Almost Exclusively
- It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when… Agreed
- Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on… Appeal