Fredrik Bajer Quotes

• As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Conclusion, Undesirable, Result

• 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

• 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 least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Seated, Essential, Understand

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Preparation, Hague, Conference

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

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Understand, Peace

• 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.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Movement, Presupposes, Response

• 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.

  Fredrik Bajer

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• 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.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Conversion, Great, Converted

• 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

• 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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  Tags in Science, War, Evolved

• 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 and who as a result earns the power to influence others.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Deserves, Result

• I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Union, Propose, Universal

• 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

• 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.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Propagandists, Carrying, Necessity

• 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 the problems besetting the cause of peace.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Association, Effectively, Problems

• 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

• Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Whenever, Developed, Possession

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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