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
balance pleasure should
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.
important details problem
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.
ideas example warfare
Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.
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.
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.
unions propose universal
I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.
war two affair
There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.
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.
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.
literature causes pacifist
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.
unions association advantage
An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.
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.
war venture cabinets
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.
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.