Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
ALAN PATONThere 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.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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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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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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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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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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