It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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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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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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 never discuss discussions.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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It is when we all play 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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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 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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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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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.
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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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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