List of Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

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Dag Hammarskjold
Total Quotes 127
For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. faith, in spite of the humiliation which is both the necessary precondition and the consequence of faith, faith without any hope of compensation other than he can find in a faith which reality seems so thoroughly to refute.
Faith Sacrifice Reality
I have only my own burden to bear.
Challenges Bears Burden
The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.
Simple Truth Is Pretentious
To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. to remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.
Rain Fall Dust
The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
Decision Leaving Shadow
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.
Death Self Goal
He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. alone. but loneliness can be a communion.
Nature Brother Stars
Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?
Expression Desire Neighbor
Acts of violence-- whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.
Violence Bitter Killing
It is not the soviet union or indeed any other big powers who need the united nations for their protection. it is all the others. in this sense, the organization is first of all their organization and i deeply believe in the wisdom with which they will be able to use it and guide it. i shall remain in my post during the term of my office as a servant of the organization in the interests of all those other nations, as long as they wish me to do so.
Believe Organization Long
Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. so! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- no! it may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
Pain Work Loneliness
In a political context of the utmost significance, ["freedom from fear"] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Philosophy Rights Political
  • Born: July 29, 1905
  • Died: September 18, 1961
  • Occupation: Diplomat
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