The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDPraise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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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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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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