It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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I never discuss discussions.
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