But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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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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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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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 only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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