The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDYour position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or 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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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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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