Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDWhat 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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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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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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 longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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