Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld; 29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author. The second secretary-general of the United Nations, he served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. At the age of 56 years and 255 days, Hammarskjöld was the youngest to have held the post. He is one of only four people to be awarded a posthumous Nobel Prize. Hammarskjöld is the only UN secretary-general to...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 July 1905
CountrySweden
Dag Hammarskjold quotes about
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes.
The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.
Perhaps a great love is never returned.
Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it.
Do not seek death. Death will find you,
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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.
On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and an incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race.To misuse the word is to show contempt for man. It undermines the bridges and poisons the wells. It causes Man to regress down the long path of his evolution.
To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.