Fredrik Bajer Quotes

• 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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  Spiritual, Character, Mean

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• Los pacifistas deberían insistir cada vez más en que es el Estado de Derecho por el que luchan.

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  Stress, Fighting, Law

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• Por otra parte, la lucha por la paz como ciencia, como arte, está en su infancia. Pero podemos rastrear su crecimiento, su progreso constante, y llegará el momento en que habrá individuos particulares designados para asumir la responsabilidad y el liderazgo de este movimiento.

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  Art, Responsibility, Hands

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• Pero estoy convencido, y me atrevo incluso a profetizar a este respecto, de que llegará el momento en que también habrá un ministro de la paz en el gabinete, sentado junto a los ministros de la guerra.

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  War, Literature, Venture

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• 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.

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  Literature, Causes, Pacifist

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

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  War, Two, Navy

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• 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.

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  Party, Political, Literature

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• 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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  Essentials, Literature, Language

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• 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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  Taken, Law, Mind

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• 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.

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  Ideas, Views, Matter

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

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  Unions, Propose, Universal

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• 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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  Literature, Body, Lasts

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• 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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  Government, Preparation, Attention

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• 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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  People, Different, Opinion

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• 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.

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  Population, Association, Voters

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• 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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  Special, Use, Literature

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

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  Warfare, Literature, Height

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

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  War, Waging War, Rate

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• 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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  Art, War, Long

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• En Dinamarca hemos tenido un movimiento de cartas de este tipo en dos ocasiones, en las que participó más de una cuarta parte de la población danesa adulta. Sin embargo, un logro así exige un esfuerzo realmente grande y también mucho dinero.

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  Two, Achievement, Effort

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

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  Ideas, Example, Warfare

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• Esta es la tarea, creo, de un movimiento de cartas. Pero sólo debe crearse en los Estados en los que pueda lograrse una respuesta significativa, ya que un movimiento de cartas presupone necesariamente una organización fuerte.

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  Strong, Thinking, Organization

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• 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.

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  Criticism, Literature, Waste

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• Hay quienes creen que necesitamos más literatura, una gran editorial internacional, un gran periódico de la paz o cosas por el estilo. Yo soy más bien escéptico ante esta idea.

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  Believe, Publishing House, Ideas

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• Hay muchos parlamentarios aquí presentes que saben tan bien como yo que, si un hombre no se ha convertido ya, se necesitará mucho más que una carta de apelación para lograr la conversión.

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  Men, Letters, Achieve

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