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 HAMMARSKJOLDIt is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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 when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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