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.
ALAN PATONNothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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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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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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