It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDI never discuss discussions.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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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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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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