"There are in most states one or two……" — Fredrik Bajer
"There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs."
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Fredrik Bajer
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31 Quotes by Fredrik Bajer
Fredrik Bajer has 31 quotes on this site.
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Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten…
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We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult…
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Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.
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By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities,…
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Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end…
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Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate…
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As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.
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Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.
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Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.
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I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.
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A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could…
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We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest…
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
— Honore de Balzac
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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