To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATONNosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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 what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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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 who can stop the heart from breaking?
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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