There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
ALAN PATONThe only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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