Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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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 when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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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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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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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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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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