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 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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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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