To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATON
Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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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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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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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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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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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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