I never discuss discussions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDFreedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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.
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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 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 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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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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