Dag Hammarskjold
For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.
For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.
Americans used to say they wanted their kids to be just like Lincoln: kind, principled, resolute. But what we’ve really wanted is for Lincoln to be like us.
School systems innovate as compulsively and as eagerly as factories.
… fears are a matter of fashion. Worries are like clothing styles, they come and go, rise and fall, based on what the worry fashion leaders tell the herd of independent minds to fear this year.
The journalistic rule is that conservatives pander, liberals “grow.”
Someday, somebody will explain to me the motive of a newspaper.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Two centuries ago when a great man appeared, people looked for God’s purpose in him; today we look for his press agent.
Man’s difficulties are caused by his inability to sit, quietly, in a room by himself.
Pressure is something you feel only when you don’t know what you’re doing.
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
The instrument through which you see God is your whole self.
One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up.
If I have shown men to be ridiculous or ludicrous, it was in no way out of any desire for comic effect…
Community… aspires toward stability.