Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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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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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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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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