Fredrik Bajer Quotes

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

I spent a lot of time with President Mandela supporting his efforts in the peace process in Burundi. The thing that impressed me the most was his humility.

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.

If there is no peace in Central America, it will not be because Costa Rica, and myself as president, have not done what is necessary to obtain peace.

I am quite sure that from America will come the greatest help for the cause of peace, and I consider it my duty to inform the people of Europe as to the feelings and intentions of the friends of peace in Europe.

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

The people who know war, those who have experienced it ... I believe are the most earnest advocates of peace in the world.

… the most effective work for peace that we can do is to make it clear that not a British life shall be sacrificed for the sake of Russian hegemony of the Slav world.

The cause of peace is too great for us to allow political disagreements or partisanship to stand in our way.

I want to work for peace, not for war.

It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?

Peace is always possible but we have to seek it. Let us pray for peace.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution, the power and apparent finality of force are seductive.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

We had the courage to face the superpowers that wanted a military triumph for each side they supported in Central America. We told them, 'No,' and presented a peace plan.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.

I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.

Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods - the violent methods - that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world.

I was part of a government that tried to resolve the question of Kosovo by war. Perhaps there is some justice that today I should be the person most responsible for finding a peaceful solution.

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.