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Top 30 Fredrik Bajer Quotes (2025 Update)

Fredrik Bajer Quote: “Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.”

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

— Fredrik Bajer

Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

— Fredrik Bajer

Fredrik Bajer Quote: “We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.”

4. “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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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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.”

6. “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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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Fredrik Bajer

Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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 rather skeptical about this idea.”

8. “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 rather skeptical about this idea.”

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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Fredrik Bajer

Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Fredrik Bajer

Fredrik Bajer Quote: “Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.”

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

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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.”

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

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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.”

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

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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Fredrik Bajer

Fredrik Bajer Quote: “As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.”

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

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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.”

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

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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.”

18. “There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.”

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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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.”

19. “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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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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.”

20. “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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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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.”

21. “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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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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.”

22. “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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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.”

23. “Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.”

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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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.”

24. “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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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.”

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

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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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.”

26. “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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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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.”

27. “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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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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.”

28. “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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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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 movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization.”

29. “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 movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization.”

— Fredrik Bajer

Fredrik Bajer Quote: “Pacifists should stress more and more that it is the rule of law for which they are fighting.”

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

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Fredrik Bajer Quote: “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.”

31. “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.”

— Fredrik Bajer

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