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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDFriendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I never discuss discussions.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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 when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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 more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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What 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.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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