Fredrik Bajer
Fredrik Bajer
Fredrik Bajerwas a Danish writer, teacher, and pacifist politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908...
NationalityDanish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth21 April 1837
CountryDenmark
Fredrik Bajer quotes about
spiritual character mean
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.
years may today
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.
taken law mind
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.
essentials language speak
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.
party political adrift
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.
height warfare impossible
Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.
views ideas different
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.
criticism waste wasting-time
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.
government preparation attention
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.
two achievement effort
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.
ideas example warfare
Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.
association voters matter
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.