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.
Dag HammarskjoldThe devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.
Dag HammarskjoldWe are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag HammarskjoldIt is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge elementary mistake, the betrayal of that within me which is greater than I--in complacent adjustment to alien demands.
Dag Hammarskjold