It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDOnly he deserves power who every day justifies it.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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