33 Quotes by Fredrik Bajer

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.