Frases de Dag Hammarskjöld

Dag Hammarskjöld fue secretario general de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas entre abril de 1953 y el 18 de septiembre de 1961, momento en que falleció al estrellarse el avión en el que viaja para mediar en el conflicto de Katanga en el Zaire o Congo Belga. Existen indicios de que el aparato de Hammarskjöld no sufrió un accidente, sino que fue derribado. Semanas después, el diplomático y funcionario internacional recibió a título póstumo el Premio Nobel de la Paz de 1961. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. julio 1905 – 18. septiembre 1961
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Frases célebres de Dag Hammarskjöld

“Por todo lo que ha sido - Gracias. Por todo lo que sea - Sí.”

Markings (1964)
Variante: «Por todo lo que ha sido - gracias. Por todo lo que será - sí».

“El viaje más largo es el viaje interior.”

Fuente: Dag Hammarskjold: Markings. Faber and Faber, Londres 1964

Frases de hombres de Dag Hammarskjöld

Dag Hammarskjöld Frases y Citas

“Cuanto más fielmente escuchas las voces dentro de ti, mejor oyes lo que está sonando fuera.”

Fuente: Citado en Sacred Seasonings (2003) de Sherri Purdom

“Es más noble entregarse completamente a un individuo que trabajar diligentemente por la salvación de las masas.”

Fuente: Citado en Living in Grace: The Shift to Spiritual Perception (2002) de Beca Lewis, pág. 158

“Los retrocesos al tratar de conquistar un ideal no demuestran que el ideal tenga defectos.”

Fuente: Citado por Rolf Edberg, Embajador de Suecia en Noruega, al aceptar el Premio Nobel de la Paz en nombre de Hammarskjöld en Oslo, Noruega (10 de diciembre de 1961)

“Aquellos que invocan la historia ciertamente serán escuchado por la historia. Y van a tener que aceptar su veredicto.”

Sobre Nikita Khrushchev.
Fuente: Citado en The Times [de Londres] (4 de octubre de 1960)

“Intentar salvar a un náufrago sin autorización previa.”

Fuente: Declaración ante la Asamblea General sobre las Operaciones de las Naciones Unidas en el Congo, 17 de octubre de 1960

“Yo nunca discuto las discusiones.”

Fuente: Declaración tras unas conversaciones diplomáticas, citado en Look (19 de septiembre de 1956)

“La atención constante de una buena enfermera puede ser tan importante como la mayor operación de un cirujano.”

Fuente: Citado en informes de prensa (18 de marzo de 1956) y en Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) de James Beasley Simpson

Dag Hammarskjöld: Frases en inglés

“You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency — your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.”

Markings (1964)
Contexto: You are not the oil, you are not the air — merely the point of combustion, the flash-point where the light is born. You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency — your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.

“The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law.”

Statement inspired by the work of British sculptor Barbara Hepworth, quoted in The Christian Science Monitor (18 Jun 1964)
Contexto: The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

“For all that has been — Thanks. For all that shall be — Yes.”

Variant translation: For all that has been — thanks. For all that will be — yes.
Markings (1964)

“In the faith which is "God's marriage to the soul", you are one in God, and God is wholly in you, just as, for you, He is wholly in all you meet.”

Markings (1964)
Contexto: In the faith which is "God's marriage to the soul", you are one in God, and God is wholly in you, just as, for you, He is wholly in all you meet. With this faith, in prayer you descend into yourself to meet the other.

“They are our tools. We fashioned them. We use them. It is our responsibility to remedy any flaws there may be in them.”

"An International Administrative Service", From an Address to the International Law Association at McGill University, Montreal, 30 May, 1956. Wilder Foote (Ed.), The Servant of Peace, A Selection of the Speeches and Statements of Dag Hammarskjöld, The Bodley Head, London 1962, p. 116.
Contexto: Do we refer to the purposes of the Charter? They are expressions of universally shared ideals which cannot fail us, though we, alas, often fail them. Or do we think of the institutions of the United Nations? They are our tools. We fashioned them. We use them. It is our responsibility to remedy any flaws there may be in them.... This is a difficult lesson for both idealists and realists, though for different reasons. I suppose that, just as the first temptation of the realist is the illusion of cynicism, so the first temptation of the idealist is the illusion of Utopia.

“The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real.”

As quoted in The Times [London] (27 June 1955)
Contexto: The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the UN 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.

“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”

Markings (1964)
Contexto: He who has surrendered himself to it knows that the Way ends on the Cross — even when it is leading him through the jubilation of Gennesaret or the triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

“Respect for the word is the first commandment in the discipline by which a man can be educated to maturity — intellectual, emotional, and moral.
Respect for the word — to employ it with scrupulous care and in incorruptible heartfelt love of truth — is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race.”

Markings (1964)
Contexto: Respect for the word is the first commandment in the discipline by which a man can be educated to maturity — intellectual, emotional, and moral.
Respect for the word — to employ it with scrupulous care and in 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.
"But I say unto you, that every idle word that men speak..."

“It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is all the others.”

Statement to the General Assembly of the United Nations (3 October 1960)
Contexto: It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is all the others. In this sense, the Organization is first of all their Organization and I deeply believe in the wisdom with which they will be able to use it and guide it. I shall remain in my post during the term of my office as a servant of the Organization in the interests of all those other nations, as long as they wish me to do so. In this context the representative of the Soviet Union spoke of courage. It is very easy to resign; it is not so easy to stay on. It is very easy to bow to the wish of a big power. It is another matter to resist. As is well known to all Members of this Assembly, I have done so before on many occasions and in many directions. If it is the wish of those nations who see in the Organization their best protection in the present world, I shall now do so again.

“Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.”

UN Press Release SG/360 (22 December 1953)
Contexto: Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just. And how can we fight for liberty if we are not free in our own minds? How can we ask others to sacrifice if we are not ready to do so?... Only in true surrender to the interest of all can we reach that strength and independence, that unity of purpose, that equity of judgment which are necessary if we are to measure up to our duty to the future, as men of a generation to whom the chance was given to build in time a world of peace.

“Setbacks in trying to realize the ideal do not prove that the ideal is at fault.”

As quoted by Rolf Edberg, Swedish Ambassador to Norway, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Hammarskjöld in Oslo, Norway (10 December 1961) http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1961/hammarskjold-acceptance.html

“Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible — not to have run away.”

"1925-1930" http://books.google.com/books?id=Zvi195aKdvMC&q=%22Life+only+demands+from+you+the+strength+you+possess+Only+one+feat+is+possible+not+to+have+run+away%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage
Markings (1964)

“The longest journey
Is the journey inwards.
Of him who has chosen his destiny,
Who has started upon his quest
For the source of his being.”

Variant translation: The longest journey is the journey inward, for he who has chosen his destiny has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
Markings (1964)

“I never discuss discussions.”

Statement after diplomatic talks, as quoted in Look (19 September 1956)

“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)

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