Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
ALAN PATONThe Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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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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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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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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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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