Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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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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