Fredrik Bajer Quotes

• We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

  Fredrik Bajer

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• 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, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Population, Danish, Denmark

• Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

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

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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 years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Occasion, Sometime, International

• To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced – this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

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  Tags in Instructive, Argument, Report

• This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization.

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  Tags in Movement, Presupposes, Response

• There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Congresses, Waste, Criticism

• There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

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  Tags in Newspaper, Publishing, Literature

• There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.

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  Tags in Conversion, Great, Converted

• There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Affair, Minister

• The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Hague, Conference, Prefer, Prepare

• The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.

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• The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.

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  Tags in Discussion, Attach, Importance

• 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 discuss the most important problems.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Congresses, Important, Problems

• On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Topics in Leadership, Progress

  Tags in Steady, Designated, Assume

• 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 propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.

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  Tags in Propagandists, Carrying, Necessity

• Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Combined, Pleasure

• 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 necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Vice, Translations, Demand

• 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 so far been won to the cause.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Effect, Pacifists, Good

Fredrik Bajer (27)

Birth:	21st April, 1837
Death:	22nd January, 1922
Nationality:	Danish
Profession:	Activist, Politician

About

Fredrik Bajer was born in Vester Egede, Denmark. He was a Danish peace activist and pacifist politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908. He entered the Danish Parliament in 1872 as a member of Folketinget and held a seat there for the following 23 years. He supported many peace organizations, both inside Denmark and Europe-wide, and helped guide the passage of a bill to reach arbitration agreements with Sweden and Norway. He was one of Denmark's leading spokesmen for women's rights helping to found the Dansk Kvindesamfund in 1871 and supporting legislation in the Folketing on behalf of equality for women, especially in economic matters.

 

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