Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
ALAN PATONI 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.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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