Fredrik Bajer Quotes

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• 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

  Spiritual, Character, Mean

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• 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.

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  Literature, Causes, Pacifist

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• 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.

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  Party, Political, Literature

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• 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 of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

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  War, Literature, Venture

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• 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.

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  Art, Responsibility, Hands

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• Pacifists should stress more and more that it is the rule of law for which they are fighting.

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  Stress, Fighting, Law

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

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  War, Two, Navy

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• 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.

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  Essentials, Literature, Language

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• 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.

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  Taken, Law, Mind

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• 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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  Ideas, Views, Matter

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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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  Unions, Propose, Universal

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• 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.

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  Literature, Body, Lasts

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• 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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  Government, Preparation, Attention

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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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  People, Different, Opinion

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• Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace associations. This is a matter of educating the population in general, and not least the voters.

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  Population, Association, Voters

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• 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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  Special, Use, Literature

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

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  Warfare, Literature, Height

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

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  Art, War, Long

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

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  War, Waging War, Rate

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• An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.

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  Unions, Association, Advantage

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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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  Common, Study, Authority

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

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  Balance, Pleasure, Should

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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.

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  Years, Literature, May

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• 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.

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  Important, Details, Literature

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• 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

  Italian, Doubt, Vices

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