It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is that things are not mended again.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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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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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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