Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
ALAN PATONThere 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.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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