Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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The myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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