Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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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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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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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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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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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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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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