Everything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDI am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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The myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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