Dag Hammarskjöld: Frasi in inglese (pagina 2)

Dag Hammarskjöld era 2º segretario generale delle Nazioni Unite. Frasi in inglese.
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“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”

"1925-1930" http://books.google.com/books?id=Zvi195aKdvMC&q=%22Never+measure+the+height+of+a+mountain+until+you+have+reached+the+top+then+you+will+see+how+low+it+was%22&pg=PA3#v=onepage
Markings (1964)

“Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.”

Variant translation: Friendship needs no words — it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.
Markings (1964)

“Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.”

On Nikita Khrushchev as quoted in The Times [London] (4 October 1960)

“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.”

Speech http://books.google.com/books?id=HhHr0IIUDKkC&q=%22Freedom+from+fear%22+%22In+a+political+context+of+the+utmost+significance+this+clause+recognizes+a+human+right+which+in+a+broad+sense+may+be+said+to+sum+up+the+whole+philosophy+of+human+rights%22&pg=PA141#v=onepage at the celebration of the 180th anniversary of the Virginia Declaration of Rights (16 May 1956)

“The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder.”

On Nikita Kruschev, in a letter to a friend, as quoted in Hammarskjöld (1972) by Brian Urquhart

“If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.”

As quoted in As I Journey On : Meditations for Those Facing Death (2000) by Sharon Dardis and Cindy Rogers