What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONShe taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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