Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTime 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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 more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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