Frases de Dag Hammarskjöld

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Dag Hammarskjöld

Fecha de nacimiento: 29. Julio 1905
Fecha de muerte: 18. Septiembre 1961

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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.

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Frases Dag Hammarskjöld

„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.“

— Dag Hammarskjöld
Context: 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..."

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

— Dag Hammarskjöld
Context: 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. As quoted in The Times [London] (27 June 1955)

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

— Dag Hammarskjöld
Context: 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? Statement inspired by the work of British sculptor Barbara Hepworth, quoted in The Christian Science Monitor (18 Jun 1964)

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

— Dag Hammarskjöld
Context: 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.

„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.“

— Dag Hammarskjöld
Context: 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. UN Press Release SG/360 (22 December 1953)

„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.“

— Dag Hammarskjöld
Context: 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. Statement to the General Assembly of the United Nations (3 October 1960)

„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.“

— Dag Hammarskjöld
Context: 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.

„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.“

— Dag Hammarskjöld
Context: 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.

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

— Dag Hammarskjöld
Context: 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. "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.

„A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.“

— Dag Hammarskjöld

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

— Dag Hammarskjöld
Variant translation: Friendship needs no words — it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.

„Maturity: among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.“

— Dag Hammarskjöld

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

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

„It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy — from lack of character.“

— Dag Hammarskjöld

„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.“

— Dag Hammarskjöld
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.

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

— Dag Hammarskjöld
"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

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Frases de Dag Hammarskjöld

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Frases Dag Hammarskjöld

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

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

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

„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.“

„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 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.“

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

„A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.“

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

„Maturity: among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.“

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

„It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy — from lack of character.“

„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.“

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

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