Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDFreedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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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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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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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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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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