The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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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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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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