Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
Dag Hammarskjöld was a Swedish diplomat, the second United Nations Secretary-General, and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
(1905 - 1961)
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"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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.
[Work]
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
[Attention]
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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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.
[Forgiveness]
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
[Anguish]
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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 illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
[God]
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How Forgiveness Helps Us 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 again made clean.
[Forgiveness]
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I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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.
[Acceptance]
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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