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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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