I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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 only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Your 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.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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 easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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