"Waging war we understand, but not waging peace,……" — Fredrik Bajer

"Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so."

— Fredrik Bajer

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31 Quotes by Fredrik Bajer

Fredrik Bajer has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten…
We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult…
Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities,…
Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end…
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate…
As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.
Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.
I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.
There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.
A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could…
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest…

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