Danish Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.