Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTime goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies 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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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