But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
ALAN PATONIf you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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 Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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