Quotes by Hammarskjold, Dag

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of mid >>

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. >>

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But >>

Quotations about United Nations

I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. >>

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed >>

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world >>

The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right -- you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

Hammarskjold, Dag