Nobel Prize

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1934 Essential Elements of a Universal and Enduring Peace Men and women everywhere are once more asking the old question – is it peace? They are asking it with anxiety and fear; for, on the one hand, there has never been such a longing for peace and dread of war as…

Nobel Lecture, June 12, 1935 Peace and the Public Mind I want my first words to be an expression of my deep sense of the honor which the Nobel Committee have conferred upon me. You will understand me when I say that I have no adequate expression for what I feel in the fact that…

Jane Addams did not deliver a Nobel Lecture.

Nicholas Murray Butler did not deliver a Nobel Lecture. He did, however, deliver a on 12 December 1931.

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1930 The Role of the Church in Promoting Peace It is my belief that “leaving ourselves in peace” with our self-conceit and evil passions does not lead to real peace. Peace can be reached only through fighting against the ancient Adam in ourselves and in others. Our generation has lived through…

Frank B. Kellogg did not deliver a Nobel Lecture.

Nobel Essay, May 31, 1928 Changes in Concepts of War and Peace Pdf 34kB

Essay based on Nobel Lecture of December 12, 1927 Security and Disarmament The two problems treated in this essay are the most delicate and current of present-day politics. They have also for a long time been fundamental problems of pacifism. It is not by chance that they are treated together here; on the contrary it…

English Nobel Lecture, December 19, 1922 (Translation) The Suffering People of Europe In the Capitoline Museum in Rome is a sculpture in marble which, in its simple pathos, seems to me to be a most beautiful creation. It is the statue of the “Dying Gaul”. He is lying on the battlefield, mortally wounded. The vigorous…

Norwegian Nobel-foredrag hollt i Kristiania den 19de december 1922 Paa Roms Kapitol er der et stykke marmor, som synes mig i sin enkle pathos aa være et av de skjønneste. Det er den »Døende Galler». Han ligger saaret til døden paa slagmarken. Dette spenstige legeme, herdet i arbeid og kamp, nu slappet mot undergangen. Det…