Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDOnly he deserves power who every day justifies it.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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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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