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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 27 quotes by Fredrik Bajer Fredrik Bajer (21 April 1837 – 22 January 1922) was a Danish writer, teacher, and pacifist politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908. The son of a clergyman, Bajer served as an officer in the Danish army, fighting in the 1864 war against Prussia and Austria where he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. He was discharged in 1865, and moved to Copenhagen where he became a teacher, translator and writer. He entered the Danish... Read full biography of Fredrik Bajer → ← Ctrl 1 2 3 Ctrl → Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights. 0 We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to... → 0 The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 ← Ctrl 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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