I never discuss discussions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDOnly he deserves power who every day justifies it.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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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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Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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