If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDYour 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.
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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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I never discuss discussions.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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 more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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