Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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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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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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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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