There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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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 that things are not mended again.
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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