Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThose who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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