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