Quote by Dag Hammarskjold, Markings, p. 9

Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and an incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race.To misuse the word is to show contempt for man. It undermines the bridges and poisons the wells. It causes Man to regress down the long path of his evolution.

Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and

Summary

This quote emphasizes the significance of respecting and carefully using words. The author suggests that using words with integrity, honesty, and accuracy is crucial for societal and personal growth. Misusing words, however, showcases a lack of regard for humanity and harms the foundations of communication and understanding. It further asserts that this misuse leads to regression rather than progression in human development. In essence, the quote highlights the power and importance of language as a tool for positive change and warns about the consequences of its misuse.

Topics

Words

By Dag Hammarskjold, Markings, p. 9

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A

We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.

Theend

Everything dies eventually. We all know that. People, cities

Everything dies eventually. We all know that. People, cities, whole civilizations. Nothing lasts. So if existence was just binary, dead or alive, here or not here, what would be the fucking point in anything? My mom used to say that's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory - hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can build off our pasts and make futures.

Hope Inspirational Julie Warm Bodies Zombie Apocalypse

I continuously go further and further learning about my own

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

Learning

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Ideas

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.

Libraries

Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses

Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Time

No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.

No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.

Oliver Cromwell

Ambition

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Good

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbea

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.

Finance

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Mary Caroline Richards

Imagination

how can you love a little catso muchin such ashortshorttime?

how can you love a little catso muchin such ashortshorttime?

Love Cat

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd

America