Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
ALAN PATONAnd money is not something to go mad about …
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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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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