"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights |
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. |
Creative people have to be fed from the divine source |
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. |
Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it. |
has no impact on most of the people outside the General Assembly and this building. |
I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive. |
I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something,and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal. |
I never discuss discussions. |
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party |
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. |
It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics. so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted. |
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. |
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. |
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity |