The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDFreedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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Your 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.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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