"I believe that we should die with decency……" — Dag Hammarskjold
"I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive."
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Dag Hammarskjold
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117 Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hammarskjold has 117 quotes on this site.
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Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of…
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When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain,…
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Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
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The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.
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Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other,…
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We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.
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We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice…
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Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor…
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The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political…
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Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must…
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We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
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