Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
ALAN PATONTo give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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