Dag Hammarskjöld: Citations en anglais
As quoted in Know Your Limits — Then Ignore Them (2000) by John Mason
On Nikita Kruschev, in a letter to a friend, as quoted in Hammarskjöld (1972) by Brian Urquhart
As quoted in Sacred Seasonings (2003) by Sherri Purdom
Address to the Swedish Academy (20 December 1954)
As quoted in As I Journey On : Meditations for Those Facing Death (2000) by Sharon Dardis and Cindy Rogers
“Creative people have to be fed from the divine source.”
Johnny Cash, in an interview for The Academy of Achievement (25 June 1993) http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/cas0int-3
Misattributed
Servant of Peace : A Selection of the Speeches and Statements of Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the United Nations (1962), p. 107; this has sometimes been paraphrased: It is in playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.”
As quoted in news reports (18 March 1956) and Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) by James Beasley Simpson
As quoted in Living in Grace : The Shift to Spiritual Perception (2002) by Beca Lewis, p. 158
In a letter to a friend, as quoted in Hammarskjöld (1972) by Brian Urquhart
Markings (1964)
“You try to save a drowning man without prior authorization.”
Statement on UN Operations in Congo before the General Assembly, 17 October 1960.
“The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.”
William Hazlitt, in The Spirit of the Age (1825)
Misattributed
"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.
