"Only he deserves power who every day justifies…" — Dag Hammarskjold
"Only he deserves power who every day justifies it."
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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When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain,…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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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
— Hannah Arendt
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going…
— Alexis Arguello
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short…
— Aristotle
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
— Aristotle
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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you…
— Julian Assange
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
— Paul Auster
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
— Paul Auster
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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