Fredrik Bajer Quotes

Denmark, Writer
April 21, 1837 – January, 22, 1922.

Fredrik Bajer (21 April 1837 – 22 January 1922) was a Danish writer, teacher, and pacifist politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908 together with Klas Pontus Arnoldson. The son of a clergyman, Bajer served as an officer in the Danish army, fighting in the 1864 war against Prussia and Austria where he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. He was discharged in 1865, and moved to Copenhagen where he became a teacher, translator and writer.

Also known as Teacher, Politician

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

Fredrik Bajer
- War
Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

Fredrik Bajer

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.

Fredrik Bajer
- May
- Value