Happy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONSuch development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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