Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. - Dag Hammarskjöld

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

To preserve the silence within — amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens — no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.

In a political context of the utmost significance, ["freedom from fear"] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.