Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
ALAN PATONThen some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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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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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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